[V8Vairs] Kelmark/ME input shaft

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Which is better Borg or saginaw?
do they make a first gear and ring and pinion that allows take  offs in first 
gear?
Thanks
P.
 
In a message dated 11/21/2008 3:00:27 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
azcamino at cox.net writes:

I don’t  know why the Kelmark requires the extra 1 1/8  inch length.  I do  
know that Clark’s sells a strengthened stock length 66-69 shaft.  It has  the 
same strength specifications as the longer (Kelmark) shaft they made in  the 
past but is not now available.  I bought one of the strengthened  stock length 
shafts to use in a Kelmark Corvair I am assembling.  To use  the stock length 
shaft, you need to use a 64/65 Borg Warner Corvair 4-spd  instead of the 
Saginaw.  I haven’t finished assembling mine yet, but one  issue seems to be the 
shaft oil seal at the input.  The Kelmark  instructions say how to deal with 
this.  A bearing retainer on the  66-later differential has to be slightly 
modified to eliminate some  interference with the earlier transmission.  I think this 
is going to  work for me.
Bruce Tester


 
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