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Från: Jarrid Gross <JGross(at)econolite.com>
Till: 'G' <gratz(at)tystberga.mail.utfors.se>; 'alpines(at)autox.team.net' <alpines(at)autox.team.net>
Datum: den 23 juni 1999 22:52
Ämne: RE: drive shaft
>Kristian J wrote,
>
>>Why do you disconnect the driveshaft? Seems unnecessary to me. (Unless it
>is an automatic)
>
>
>When the car is moving, but the engine is not spinning, the mainshaft turns,
>but doesnt drive the counter gear, or the input shaft.
>
>The counter gear is what throughs oil all over everything, which means
>that the internals are spinning, but not really being lubes.
>
>Worse yet is that the main shaft runs on roller bearings in the input
>shaft, which is stationary and not getting oil too.
>
>This spins the rollers at about 30X the mainshaft rate, which is not good
>considering there is no oil to cool the bearing faces.
>
>
>
>Jarrid Gross
>
Yes Jarrid, I see the point. In theory it seems to be quite right. However, If the oil level is right up to the filler opening as it should, some part of the mainshaft is deep enough to through oil around. And it is spinning without any load.
Why am I stubborn about this? Well, all this towing of cars 150 - 200 miles haven't made any harm. Or do you mean even longer distances in high speed?
Helping some fellow with his car in the middle of a rainy night, you want to get away with it without eating mud under some oily car.
Kristian J
Sweden
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