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Originally Posted by Megator
Not without being face to face (or me drawing a pretty picture). However maybe try a little experiment. Take a bolt (preferably of a bigish diameter) and stack a bunch of flat washers on it, then tighten them all using a nut (barely tight, just enough so the washers do not move). Now spin/move the washers without spinnig the nut (this might be hard to do but the more washers you have the easier it should be to do the middle ones), eventually you should be able to get the nut to come off without needing tools.
Essentially this is what is happening with the crank hub.
Spline lock has been proven not to work. Great idea but the crank is forged and hardened you are never going to "bite" into the material by screwing something on.
Aside from that it seems their machinist might not be of the highest quality, see here:
https://www.litchfieldmotors.com/blo...ank-hub-issue/ |
I can't trust a competitors source since it could just be a marketing tactic, but VTT said they tested it on an s55 crank which was also forged and it was able to sink in without an issue. They have also have claimed to snap cranks because it was able to bit tight enough.
In regards to machinist issues, again I've never heard of that from an unbiased third party.