{"id":116,"date":"2010-05-07T17:14:06","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T06:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nzm018.com\/?p=116"},"modified":"2010-05-07T17:24:05","modified_gmt":"2010-05-07T06:24:05","slug":"gearbox-magician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nzm018.com\/?p=116","title":{"rendered":"Gearbox magician"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So things with the gearbox are more complicated than ever anticipated.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m informed that the quaife diff uses different bearings to the stock exa, 42 vs 40mm. This can be made to work so it&#8217;s ok, but the diff also takes larger input shafts &#8211; 3mm bigger I think it was said.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve suggested that J30 Maxima is given a go; thankfully the gearbox specialist is also one of the country&#8217;s largest driveshaft specialists! If the J30 inners match the diff I just have to hope they match the Exa shafts which are being sent up to be checked as well. I&#8217;m using J30 outers already so I think the chances of a match are pretty good.<\/p>\n<p>I can only imagine all the cursing these mis-matched parts have caused the builder and I really feel sorry for him. But he sounds really talented and more importantly confident of being able to make it work 100%. In return for his willingness to make it all work and great attitude I have offered to put a couple of company stickers on my car for him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.classiccargurus.com.au\/Top_Cog\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118  aligncenter\" title=\"49_0\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.nzm018.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/49_0.jpg\" alt=\"49_0\" width=\"141\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So things with the gearbox are more complicated than ever anticipated. I&#8217;m informed that the quaife diff uses different bearings to the stock exa, 42 vs 40mm. This can be made to work so it&#8217;s ok, but the diff also takes larger input shafts &#8211; 3mm bigger I think it was said. I&#8217;ve suggested that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nzm018.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nzm018.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nzm018.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nzm018.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nzm018.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nzm018.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nzm018.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions\/117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nzm018.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nzm018.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nzm018.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}