I got lucky this week a purchased this Matco magneto. The mag is hot and should clean up nicely. All the gears are there and appear in good shape. One thing I noticed that I thought was innovative is it’s set up for T engines with or without generator provisions.
The only thing that’s missing is the drive coupler. Looks like that will be easy to make. Just curious if anyone had a picture of the coupler so I can make it as close to original as possible? Thanks
Matco Cross Drive Magneto Question
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Kenny Edmondson
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Re: Matco Cross Drive Magneto Question
Haven’t seen an output shaft with a hex drive before. Typically these MATCO drives have a 1” diameter cylindrical output shaft, and a matching hub to mount to the mag. A short piece of fiber reinforced rubber hose is used to couple. A 1/4” screw and nut anchors the hose at the output shaft side, and a special MATCO bronze hose clamp provides an infinite adjustability at the mag. I have drawings for the output shaft and bushing, can dig em up if you want
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Re: Matco Cross Drive Magneto Question
Same casting as my Eisemann front mount, including the provisions for use on both style engines.
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1925 Cut down pickup
1948 Ford F2 pickup
1925 Cut down pickup
1948 Ford F2 pickup
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Kenny Edmondson
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Re: Matco Cross Drive Magneto Question
Kevin, the pictures I found online all had the hose type couplers, but none with the hex. I assumed this mag may be a later model since this mag has the impulse feature for better starting. But that’s only an assumption.
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Re: Matco Cross Drive Magneto Question
A love joy coupling may work for you
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