Peter,
Mine does much the same thing. I imagine it's the viscosity of
the transmission fluid that causes the output shaft to spin. I haven't
noticed the torque increasing when the engine speed is increased, however.
And, in any case, it doesn't seem likely that anything mechanical would be
causing the shaft to turn, unless the gears are so hopelessly mixed up,
that the transmission doesn't know what neutral. I imagine in that case
you'd probably get a very good deal of grinding and crashing of the gears.
Jim Ruwaldt
'72 TR6 CC79338U
Bloomington, IN
On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Peter Zaborski wrote:
> Thanks again to all who assured me my starter was still fine after the
> confusion I had regarding what the commutator is. I am happy to report
> the starter is not only fine, but also seems to have much more "punch"
> after the cleaning of the contacts. But now on to my current question...
>
> I reinstalled my gearbox this weekend (the o/d still doesn't work -
> #$%@!!!).
>
> The drive shaft and diff are out of the car while my diff mounts get
> repaired. One thing I noticed is that while in neutral with the engine
> running, the output flange on the gearbox spins. I can stop the spinning
> with my hand grabbing the flange but when I release the flange, it
> starts spinning again. If I increase the rpm's, the spinning will get
> faster and a with little more torque.
>
> Is this normal? (I think that the drive shaft would normally prevent the
> spinning of the output shaft if the driveshaft was there). (I know very
> little about the internals of a gearbox and how it works so perhaps this
> behavior is perfectly normal - the gearbox works just fine when the car
> is driven - other than the o/d of course).
>
> Peter Zaborski
> 76 TR6 (CF58310 UO)
> Calgary AB Canada
>
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