input/output shaft issue

sharksanddanger

sharksanddanger

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I have a doubler that NWF made to go on my nissan and it comes with a new shaft for the nissan case with a 23 spline output to enable you to put a d300, atlas or stak behind it. Well I got an Atlas and the splines are an extremely tight fit, actually for the shaft to go in there I'd have to beat it with a mallet probably 10 times for it to seat all the way and I'm kind of afraid to do that. Picture of how far it will go in(about 1/8" or so) before I'd have to force it in there.
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It should be a tight fit but not that tight. It would also make for a huge PITA to beat one case onto another and then still have to separate it if something was wrong or broken.

I'm going to call NWF and tell them about it but I know of others running this adapter and shaft without any issues. I guess my question would be could I take a tiny file to each of the splines to make the shaft slide in there a little easier?

Ideas, opinions, comments, sexual jokes on shaft insertion?:flipoff2:
 
Hmm, sucks. Is it the spline cut angle or the OD of the splines that is causing the interference? You could always freeze your shaft (haha) first and then put it together, of course then getting it apart later would be fun.
 
OnlyOneDR said:
Hmm, sucks. Is it the spline cut angle or the OD of the splines that is causing the interference? You could always freeze your shaft (haha) first and then put it together, of course then getting it apart later would be fun.
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I'd have to have a pretty big freezer to put the entire t-case in there, yours is pretty big isn't it?
 
rockcity said:
I'd use emory cloth and do a little at a time.
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x2 if you get it part way in and 'can' force it, it's probably only a 1/2 .001 or less...

:beer: for actually test fitting it before hand stuff like this is very common when mix/matching custom parts...
 
To update this thread:

I ended up spending quality time with the shaft and a dremel to get that sucker to fit. I think I spent nearly 2 hours slowly shaping down the splines until it would slide in with only a slight bit of drag. The angle of the splines was not quite right for the input to the Atlas.
 
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