Thread: One way to build a '32 sedan

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Tom,
You are right we have adjusters just like a motorcycle. I love comments and question if I'm going in the right direction.
Thanks for taking the time.
Here is the model.

Ken

Here it is assembled with the pitman arm shaft that will stick outside the cowl and the pitman arm will slip over the splines.
Ken

Love the cad drawings. Picture is worth a 1000 words, so I guess a cad drawing is worth 10k and a computer laser cutter is priceless!

I can't speak for Ken, but I think we are all overthinking this thing. It isn't like it is a motorcycle chain that spins at a zillion rpms (which Ken also has a lot of experience with through his other company) but it is on a fixture that moves very slowly and not far at any one time. The dual idlers look much better to me than one because they would keep equal tension on the chain when you turn the wheel BOTH ways, and if you look at the picture below, you can see how they act as guides to keep the chain in a straight line until they reach the idlers.

To me it sure looks a lot more stout and better thought out than the one that is on the market, and for which users have had nothing but praise. I like it.

Don

Originally Posted by Evolvo

Ken,
I'm curious to know why you chose to use two idlers? Seems to me one would work just fine and there would be that much less friction and wear.
Besides that your doing fine
Alan

cause if ones good twos better right? jk