So I finally ended up with a pair of drive flanges to modify for emergency use (blown front diff, CV joint, etc.
I was going to bore them out on a lathe at work but as it turned out - they are hardened, or at least case hardened, so I couldn't didn't want to use a regular tool steel lathe tool, it would be better to use carbide which I don't have that much experience with - plus it was ending up being a pretty difficult task to get them trued up in the four jaw chuck so the bore would be centered and perpendicular to the mating surface. There is not much room for error since by the time the I.D. is big enough for the drive shaft splines to clear the inside wall of the flange, the wall thickness where the dust cap presses on ends up being rather thin. So, the bore job needs to be on dead center.
So instead of the lathe method I opted to use MAGIC instead!!
Here is one before I cast my magic spell..........
After waving my wand over the flange the magic began.......
Slowly the splines began to rise.....
I was going to bore them out on a lathe at work but as it turned out - they are hardened, or at least case hardened, so I couldn't didn't want to use a regular tool steel lathe tool, it would be better to use carbide which I don't have that much experience with - plus it was ending up being a pretty difficult task to get them trued up in the four jaw chuck so the bore would be centered and perpendicular to the mating surface. There is not much room for error since by the time the I.D. is big enough for the drive shaft splines to clear the inside wall of the flange, the wall thickness where the dust cap presses on ends up being rather thin. So, the bore job needs to be on dead center.
So instead of the lathe method I opted to use MAGIC instead!!
Here is one before I cast my magic spell..........
After waving my wand over the flange the magic began.......
Slowly the splines began to rise.....
