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Re: Axle Ratio

To: "Paul A Asgeirsson" <pasgeirsson@juno.com>, <mhanna@ball.com>
Subject: Re: Axle Ratio
From: "Larry Miller" <millerls@ado13.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 09:51:52 -0800
Cc: <Spridgets@autox.team.net>
Reply-to: "Larry Miller" <millerls@ado13.com>
Sender: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
Apparently all units are not stamped on the outside. Of the six that I have,
four are stamped on the outside. The other two are stamped on the outer edge
of the gear. All came out of Spridgets but may have originated elsewhere.

Larry Miller
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul A Asgeirsson <pasgeirsson@juno.com>
To: mhanna@ball.com <mhanna@ball.com>
Cc: Spridgets@autox.team.net <Spridgets@autox.team.net>
Date: 09 February, 1999 9:40 AM
Subject: Re: Axle Ratio


>Hi Mark,
>
>Because you jacked up and rotated just one wheel, you need to make it go
>two revolutions to get the accurate driveshaft revolution count.  The
>pinion and crown wheel tooth counts are also stamped on the top of the
>differential carrier housing.  This is on the outside.
>
>Paul
>PAsgeirsson@juno.com
>
>On Tue, 9 Feb 1999 09:30:46 -0700  "Hanna, Mark" <mhanna@ball.com>
>writes:
>>A while back there was a thread about determining rear axle ratio .
>>Last night I jacked up one rear wheel , marked the drive shaft , spun
>>the jacked up wheel one rotation and counted the drive shaft
>>revolutions .
>>I was expecting to see the drive shaft rotate 4.2 - 4.5 times .
>>Instead what
>>I
>>saw was the drive shaft rotate almost 2 revolutions for every one
>>revolution
>>
>>of the jacked up wheel . What am I doing wrong ? And how do I
>>determine
>>the axle ratio using this method ?
>>    TIA ,
>>          Mark Hanna
>>          AN5L/13731
>>
>>
>
>



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