Hi Dave,
Glad to see someone else who believes that TD's are meant to be driven.
But,
I'm going to differ with you a bit. I think that one of the best moves that I
made
was to install a set of 4.30 gears into the differential. It makes it much
easier
to drive Safety Fast on the interstates, 65mph is only 3800 rpm.
Bud Krueger
52TD
77MGB
Dave and Liz DuBois wrote:
> Not to get into an argument with Lew, but I believe that the statement
>"The
> second problem is that with a 1:1 ration in top gear, the engine is running at
> much too high an RPM for comfortable cruising at 60 - 65 MPH" is a subjective
> assessment, based on the American preference for large displacement low
>revving
> engines. My wife and I have twice taken our TD, with standard gearing on
>5000+
> mile trips in the Western USA, traveling 8 to 10 hrs a day at 4200 RPM and
>the
> worst problem that we had was a fouled plug at the end of the last trip. The
> high RPM did not in any way damage the engine (other than to wear it faster),
> although I do admit to wishing for an overdrive just to make ME feel better.
>
> Hope that this doesn't muddy the waters too much.
>
> Sincerely,
> Dave DuBois
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