Thanks Richard, that's super helpful! thumbs

Obviously the best way to answer all this is to remove Monty's hub and count the splines, but that's not possible right now as I'm away from the car, hence my post here. So this morning I phoned Moto Lita, at first the woman who answered seemed reluctant to help, she said they always advise their customers to count the splines.

However, when I gave her the Moto Lita part number B71J and suggested she would likely have a spec sheet on her system that would confirm how many splines this hub had, she agreed and looked it up. The answer as you have already kindly confirmed is the Moto Lita hub B71J has 48 splines.

I actually have a B71 NB on Monty, but both the B71J and B71 NB come up as being suitable for a post 2007 Morgan when you search the Moto Lita website.

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So it now seems highly likely Monty's hub has 48 splines, the only potential curve ball being Monty has a Mulfab front wishbone conversion that uses a 2.7 turns lock to lock Mk1/2 Ford Escort rack, and I don't know if Mulfab used the standard Morgan column or not? However, I suspect the column is what came with the car when it was built as they clearly reused the 48 spline Moto Lita B71 NB hub.

I'm now as convinved as I can be that I've bought the wrong Optimill quick release hub, I will now phone Paddock and get them to change my order from the 36 spline version to 48 splines.

Many thanks for your help Richard, I believe you've saved me from some considerable frustration cheers

Last edited by Montegue; 18/02/26 01:14 PM.