[DeTomaso] TRUNION BEARING

[wkooiman at earthlink.net]

I have the one done by Quella.  I sent him everything.  He cut the ends of the shaft, welded them onto a new tube, replaced all the u-joints with needle-bearing race quality parts, and included a spherical joint.  It is much better than before.

Very happy, but I don't have time to camp, so I guess I'm a happy hoteler.

-----Original Message-----
>From: JDeRyke at aol.com
>Sent: Jul 14, 2010 12:06 AM
>To: ncpantera at bellsouth.net, detomaso at realbig.com
>Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] TRUNION BEARING
>
>Not sure whats being sold now, but Hall's trunnion used to be a pretty 
>aluminum thing with a white teflon bushing for the shift tube to slide through, 
>and had a small setscrew to retain it. Teflon has a low softening 
>temperature, and the trunnion is pretty close to the left header. So on some cars, the 
>teflon softened so much, the setscrew that holds the bushing in place, no 
>longer did so. The bushing slid out and you couldn't get another gear until 
>it was pushed back in place. It didn't seem to matter which way the trunnion 
>was installed, the bushing has a lip only on one end and it slid out the 
>other way. No adhesive will hold teflon, either. IMHO a redesign was needed; 
>maybe it happened by now but if its got a teflon bushing, look closely at the 
>design. FWIW- J DeRyke
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