Description
22AM8 R & D Boat Engine Damper Drive Plate
Fitted between the boat engine and the gearbox input shaft, a damper drive plate is designed to transmit the engine power to the gearbox, whilst reducing transmitted gear noise and providing a cushioned drive when selecting gear. All R and D Damper Drive plates include a ‘failsafe’ design.
Also called the Driven Plate, Damper Plate or Clutch Plate, the 22AM8 Damper Drive Plate is from the R and D High Deflection element range. Common applications for the 22AM8 drive plate include BMC, Ford and Perkins engines.
Drive plate 22AM8 can replace PRM MT4906 and R&D 22AA8.
R&D damper plate technical details:
– Spline: 10 B10 x 23 x 29 DIN 5464 (29mm diameter) Newage PRM 80 & 120 gearbox, ZF 10 & 12 gearbox, Hurth HBW 5, 10, 50, 125 and 15 gearboxes, Technodrive TMC 30, 40, 50 & 60 gearboxes and Borgwarner 500
– Diameter of drive plate back plate which bolts to the engine flywheel: 298.5mm (11.75″)
– Back plate fixing holes: The multi-punched back plate has various groups on holes 6 x 8.1mm on 200mm PCD, 6 x 8.1mm on 250mm PCD, 6 x 8.1mm on 269.9mm PCD and 6 x 8.1mm on 273mm PCD
– Drive plate maximum thickness: 32mm (1.25″)
Fitted with the softer type AM high deflection ‘finger type’ element for 135Nm 100 ft lb torque, providing a maximum deflection up to 30 degrees. This type of drive plate is especially suited to workboats with slow speed applications & pleasure boats. Note that this type of damper drive plate can only be fitted to rotate in the standard direction of rotation (anti-clockwise when looking at the flywheel) with the drive plate element facing the gearbox. These damper plates are also failsafe.
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