Propshaft


MG Midget 1500 5 speed conversion

	Propshaft cost me 10 quid...

	Lots of firms will do custom propshafts. Cost quoted to me was £80-£150. “I can do better than that,” I thought.


		Ford Transit prop-shaft

Bridget the Midget

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Ford Cortina Propshaft. Surface rust soon cleaned off slider

Ford sliding spline (left) and MG (right). Ford spline goes straight into rear of gearbox and allows for angular movement of back axle of MG. I spent time polishing the shaft. It is essential that any ridge is virtually polished out.

Front half of Cortina propshaft (top) alongside MG propshaft (bottom). I checked lengths when engine and gearbox was in the car to confirm my calculated lengths. I used front of Ford and rear of MG


		Cortina propshaft tube (left) and MG Midget. The MG slides up the inside of the Ford but is slack. I discovered that jubilee (hose) clip banding is exactly the right size to wrap around the MG tube so that it fits perfectly inside the Ford tube.




	Finished propshaft. It may need balancing. Note orientation of yokes at 90 degrees to each other at each end. Dimension 650 mm is to gearbox rear oil seal. The front shiny sliding bit needed polishing to remove original oil seal track groove.
Midget shaft (rear Hardy Spicer shown) slid up inside of Cortina shaft