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Re: What differential?

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Subject: Re: What differential?
From: joe-schneider@nwu.edu (Joseph R Schneider)
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 20:42:02 -0500
(snip)
>Then, take a piece of string and measure the circumferance of your drive
>shaft.  Then carfully, tape a string to the drive shaft and while pushing the
>car forward, allow the string to "wind up" on the drive shaft.  Measure how
>much string wound up.  If it is 4.11 times the diameter then your dif is a
>4.11 - etc.
>
(snip)

it's a great idea, but it should be "...if it 4.11 times the circumference..."
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joe


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