RE: Gearing, again

[Dick Rasmussen <rasmussend@mindspring.com>]

At 01:51 PM 7/22/2003 -0400, Mark Sirota wrote:
>--On Tuesday, July 22, 2003 1:48 PM -0400 "Godula, Gary (G.M.)" 
><ggodula@ford.com> wrote:
>>Anytime I broke a gear, it was always from tire hook-up after tire spin
>>on acceleration.
>
>Has anyone ever broken a gear on a downshift, or is it always on upshifts?
>
>Both of my broken gears happened on upshifts.
>
>Mark

Never broke a gear so can't help <grin>.

Broke a half shaft once (right after getting them magnafluxed for the first 
time ever) but that was because the shaft got a shock load thanks to a 
pavement hole in the middle of a hard launch.


Dick Rasmussen
CM 85
85 Van Diemen FF 

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