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Re: [Spridgets] More highway speed for a bugeye?

To: Mike Myers <mdmyersct@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] More highway speed for a bugeye?
From: Rick Fisk via Spridgets <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Date: Sun, 10 May 2015 16:01:19 -0700
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That's the whole deal right there in a nutshell.  The entire assembly provides 
"differential" action, that's it's whole purpose in life, and why it's called a 
differential in real speak.  :-) 

Sent from my keyboard

> On May 10, 2015, at 3:32 PM, Mike Myers <mdmyersct@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Daniel is correct - the differential is actually the spider gears inside the 
> carrier that  to which the ring gear or crown wheel is bolted. These gears 
> allow the rear wheels to rotate independently when need to travel different 
> distances when turning corners, thus providing a "differential" rotation. We 
> just get lazy and refer to the whole thing as a diff. 
> 
> Mike Myers
> 
>> On May 10, 2015, at 5:48 PM, Rick Fisk via Spridgets 
>> <spridgets@autox.team.net> wrote:
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>> This is a differential in Yankee talk.
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