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MetroMPG · 01-08-2009, 06:22 PM

You may also be able to have that shaft pressed out and a replacement installed.

I would say you'd be lucky to drive a car for very long with that in the interface between the motor & transmission.

I've still got a smaller version of that style of shaft end on the permanent magnet power steering motor from the forklift we scavenged. The other end of the motor has a fan on it, and if you remove the fan, we've got approx 1 inch of "normal" shaft to work with. Do you have that option at the other end?

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