drive shaft donuts

[coleking]

About ready to reassemble a vintage Alexis FF and wondering how to get the drive shaft "donuts" back on the car. Looks like they expanded a bit and I'm wondering how to line up the holes to accept the bolts.

Any ideas or tricks to this?

Thanks for your help in advance

[Jerry Kehoe]

About ready to reassemble a vintage Alexis FF and wondering how to get the drive shaft "donuts" back on the car. Looks like they expanded a bit and I'm wondering how to line up the holes to accept the bolts.

Any ideas or tricks to this?

Thanks for your help in advance

Hose clamps work fine around the circumference.

[Lee Johnson]

About ready to reassemble a vintage Alexis FF and wondering how to get the drive shaft "donuts" back on the car. Looks like they expanded a bit and I'm wondering how to line up the holes to accept the bolts.

Any ideas or tricks to this?

Thanks for your help in advance

Not sure if this works for FF sized donuts (it does for the FT200 ones!), but worth considering:
- put 2 (very long) hose clamps around the outside of the donut (one near the half-shaft "spider" face & 1 near the tranny "spider" face)
- by differentially tightening these, you can "tweak" the parallelism of the bolt holes in the donut relative to the axis of the drive shaft.
- This can make it easier to get the donuts to slide over the 3 (fixed) bolts on the tranny and driveshaft/half-shaft spiders.

Lee