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Re: Guessing the Diff. Ratio

To: "Musson, Carl" <musson@satie.arts.usf.edu>
Subject: Re: Guessing the Diff. Ratio
From: "Peter J. Thomas" <pjthomas01@snet.net>
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 22:24:13 -0400
Cc: "'James Densley'" <jamesd@wsunix.wsu.edu>, triumphs@Autox.Team.Net
References: <313F5A08B7A7D111AE270020AFE5357801367B@burn.acomp.usf.edu>

Musson, Carl wrote:

> Although it is hard to guess the .whatever you can count the turns of
> the driveshaft to the single rotation of  wheel.   I never got around to
> it, but I ws going to mark the drive shaft (actually the shaft was off
> the car) and the housing so that I could determine the degrees but it
> appeared to be pretty close to 9:00 which would be close to the 3.7 on
> the TR3.    I have never really thought about it; but should both rear
> wheels be up in the air to do this?

Both wheels up, turn both wheels together to get the ratio.  One wheel up
and get half the ratio.

Basically, jack one wheel, rotate it twice, count the rotations of the drive
shaft to get the ratio.

Peter Thomas



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