The Return of the Adaptors....

Today Mr. Brooks, the machine shop instructor from Rockingham Community College, brought in our new spacers and adaptor plates for the connection of the electric motor to the transmission. Mr. Brooks had students at RCC construct the adaptor plates for us out of solid aluminum stock. He was a huge help in connecting the motor to the transmission and in helping us find the thickness of another needed spacer plate. The machined components connected perfectly but we were still shy of filling a space of about ¾ inches thick. Having the previous adaptor plate from our motor purchase, Mr. Brooks took it to RCC to turn down into another spacer instead of wasting new material to fabricate another plate. Mr. Brooks should have the other spacer completed within the next few days. Hopefully, it is what we are looking for and the project can continue as scheduled.

This is a pic of the new adaptors and clutch. A standard clutch usually has a surrounding rim of friction material around the spline encasement, but with no need of a clutch in our car, we decided to shave off the friction material to reduce the clutch's size. We only needed the splines so that the motor shaft and the transmission shaft could be connected.

This is a shot of me observing Mr. Butler and Mr. Brooks examining the freshly fabricated pieces.

This is a pic of Mr Butler placing the clutch and clutch spacer on the motor.

Tightening up the hex-head bolts.

Putting the motor and transmission together.

Mike and Mr. Butler measuring the gap needed to be filled between the motor and transmission.