[Spridgets] More highway speed for a bugeye?

Rick Fisk refisk at chartermi.net
Sun May 10 17:01:19 MDT 2015


That's the whole deal right there in a nutshell.  The entire assembly provides "differential" action, that's it's whole purpose in life, and why it's called a differential in real speak.  :-) 

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> On May 10, 2015, at 3:32 PM, Mike Myers <mdmyersct at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Daniel is correct - the differential is actually the spider gears inside the carrier that  to which the ring gear or crown wheel is bolted. These gears allow the rear wheels to rotate independently when need to travel different distances when turning corners, thus providing a "differential" rotation. We just get lazy and refer to the whole thing as a diff. 
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> Mike Myers
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>> On May 10, 2015, at 5:48 PM, Rick Fisk via Spridgets <spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote:
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>> This is a differential in Yankee talk.
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