At 07:51 PM 10/1/97 EDT, you wrote:
A dog engagement gearbox is one in which the engagement of the various
>gears is by a series of undercut "dogs" on the face(s) of the gears, as
>opposed to the use of syncro rings in most street gearboxes.
> In stead of using the syncro rings to pull the driven gear up to speed
>with the drive gear and avoid crashing the gears, a "dog box" actually
>jerks the driven gear up to speed. The undercut on the dogs provides a
>positive lock, so to speak.
> Dog boxes generally are a bit heftier than their syncro cousins, as
>there are no syncro rings to wear. Found in the better competition
>machinery, (eg. Hewland, ZF, etc)
>Rick Morrison
So, are 'dog-leg' first gears always 'dog engagement' boxes? Or is a dog-leg
first (or fifth, sixth, whatever) simply a descriptive term for any gear
outside of the main pattern (ala Porsche 914)?
Michael, New Bern, NC
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