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Sep 25, 2012 4:13 pm
Sep 25, 2012 4:13 pm
Subject: Re: Driveshaft grease
In the beginning, AML chose an "ordinary" grease but after repeated half-shaft failures under warranty they got in Hardy-Spicer for a design review, who immediatley spotted that the designed geometry of the shafts was not perpendicular to the plane of wheel rotation, which causes uneven peak loading on the splines which the "ordinary" grease couldn't cope with. Hence the change to graphite grease. Your call re Moly grease though
In the beginning, AML chose an "ordinary" grease but after repeated half-shaft failures under warranty they got in Hardy-Spicer for a design review, who immediatley spotted that the designed geometry of the shafts was not perpendicular to the plane of wheel rotation, which causes uneven peak loading on the splines which the "ordinary" grease couldn't cope with. Hence the change to graphite grease. Your call re Moly grease though