Re: 4K tranny - .75 or .80 5th??

[VWMikeLVW@aol.com]

In a message dated 1/23/01 8:56:59 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
brett@shell.netacc.net writes:


> I heard this also, and when I got the .75 gear, looking at it you could tell
> it was a slightly 'finer' cut gear, but didn't appear weak because of it
> though.  I have heard of very high HP cars stripping gears occasionally,
> and all of our cars probably chip a reverse gear (a straight cut non-syncho
> mesh gear), but how much torque could we possibly be putting on 5th?  Enough
> to cause helical cut mesh gears to break off?  Seemed an unlikely enough 
> occurance to me, I'm not worried about it, especially because it's 5th...not
> one of the gears I'm likely to _really_ bang around anyway.  I'll be the 
> first
> to report it if I blow out my 5th gear though! :)


I have usually heard of actual problems in like turbo cars, or when people 
try to tow something uphill in 5th gear.

Mike
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