- Location
- New Zealand
Hi team.
Yesturday my FX-1 gave up mid lake. Engine runs but just a nasty rattle and impeller shaft seemed to be free spinning. Stripped it down and the drive shaft and mid shaft splines are shot.
Because I live in NZ I have to get creative sometimes due to lack of avaliability of parts but dont want to do a bodgy on it. Not interested in loctite 660 for example.
Thinking the driveshaft, external splines, could be built up, lathed and milled but the internal splines in the midshaft are more of a problem.
Is there any way to repair the midshaft?
Has anyone put a spline insert in? Is a pin across it worth thinking about?
Or, better perhaps, does anyone have a good mid shaft and perhaps a driveshaft.
I have a drop ship address in the US. It's just the conversion rate and shipping costs that hurt but probably not as much as having a $3k paperweight sitting in the shed when I'm on holiday and its one of the hottest summers I can ever remember.
Yesturday my FX-1 gave up mid lake. Engine runs but just a nasty rattle and impeller shaft seemed to be free spinning. Stripped it down and the drive shaft and mid shaft splines are shot.
Because I live in NZ I have to get creative sometimes due to lack of avaliability of parts but dont want to do a bodgy on it. Not interested in loctite 660 for example.
Thinking the driveshaft, external splines, could be built up, lathed and milled but the internal splines in the midshaft are more of a problem.
Is there any way to repair the midshaft?
Has anyone put a spline insert in? Is a pin across it worth thinking about?
Or, better perhaps, does anyone have a good mid shaft and perhaps a driveshaft.
I have a drop ship address in the US. It's just the conversion rate and shipping costs that hurt but probably not as much as having a $3k paperweight sitting in the shed when I'm on holiday and its one of the hottest summers I can ever remember.
