Yup, I agree with all that. In fact it prolly wasn't Rootes that made it
that way but one of the 'merican hotrodders like shelby or ..."don't give me
any of that therory, does it work" methodology... actually the way I work
also... I gotta go outy and look at mine one of these days just to see. I
wonder how everybody else's is?
mayf
----- Original Message -----
From: "Palmer, Robert L." <RPalmer@brobeck.com>
To: "'DrMayf'" <drmayf@teknett.com>; "Steve Kenyon" <J&E@ontis.com>; "Tiger
List" <tigers@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 3:55 PM
Subject: RE: In phase ?
> Mayf,
>
> I think we can all agree that for a rapidly rotating U-joint assembly, the
> joints should be aligned "in phase" to avoid vibration due to the
variation
> in rotation velocity with angle that occurs when they are not aligned. The
> steering column assembly is not a "rapidly rotating" assembly. It is also
> engineered by Rootes to be significantly out of phase. The only logical
> conclusion I can come to is the misalignment was done purposely to avoid
> "hard spots" at certain rotation angles. Of course, it's also possible
that
> Rootes simply didn't know what the *%$# they were doing. ;-)
>
> Bob
>
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