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RE: How stuff works --> Differentials

Subject: RE: How stuff works --> Differentials
From: "Randall Young" <ryoung@navcomtech.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 10:41:59 -0800
Cc: <triumphs@autox.team.net>
> Don't forget the torque reaction from the engine which is equal in
> magnitude but opposite in direction.  The net effect is zero
> except for the amount of chassis twist.

Not true, the engine is making far less torque than is being applied to the
halfshafts.  It's multiplied by both the gears in the transmission, and the
gears in the differential.

Randall




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