Don't recall the length off hand, but the kinroad and carter were the same overall--it's the lengths of the various machined sections that you have to be checking out. the carter shaft has a longer splined area on the gearbox side with the step up to the wider part in a different location. this in turn made the Kinroad's shaft position the outer "fixed" half of the gearbox farther away from the engine, thus the need for additional spacers to move the rotating portion over to it. Otherwise, that half could have moved quite a bit on the shaft. I think it was about 3/8ths or so off. What Tom and I determined was that the spacers are different between the two--the carter has a "floating" main spacer that goes into the rotating side, but not as deeply as the kinroad's and that one i think may have been sort of fixed or locked to the inside of the case once installed. we probably spent an hour on the phone talking measurements, dimensions of both types etc ...
Last edited by x-bird; 09-18-2012 at 04:50 PM.
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