'Safety' drive shafts
Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2020 3:47 pm
Elan and Plus 2 Source book progressing well and I'm sorting out little niggles and tying up loose ends as best I can now. It was late in Plus 2 production when the 'Safety' drive shafts, diff output shafts and hub drives with the tube and spigot system was introduced to prevent the shafts failing about if a rotoflex broke up. I remember Mike Kimberly told me ha had worked on them after joining Lotus in 1969 but couldn't remember the exact date, and they are not listed in my 1971 Plus 2 Parts manual. So three questions:
Does anyone have the date or chassis number these were introduced?
I believe they were only fitted to the Plus 2 - can anyone confirm this was the case?
Was the tube bit on the central drive shaft or the dif and hub shafts?
Many thanks to the collective.....
Does anyone have the date or chassis number these were introduced?
I believe they were only fitted to the Plus 2 - can anyone confirm this was the case?
Was the tube bit on the central drive shaft or the dif and hub shafts?
Many thanks to the collective.....