Leeroy Hard Down
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**** happens. But for the amount of blood sweat and pesos I have put into Leeroy, I would have thought the soul of the car would have treated me a bit better recently. Its going to sit for a while one way or another.
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From: saratoga, ca
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From: saratoga, ca
remember my example of how the tail can wag the dog?? here is a great example of how the forces at the tire, reflected back to the driveline can be WAY more impressive! there could have been 1000ft-lbs of torque acting on the driveshaft, after the TOB locked up. the car is moving.... say in 5th and we already determined that it takes about 2000ft-lbs of torque to break the tires free.......... because it happend in 5th gear, at 2:1 , thats 1000ft-lbs on the drive line. if it happened in 2nd, a gear where 300ftlbs can break the tires free, that force wouldnt have broken the driveline.
the point here is.... too bad the short shaft didnt break instead. this becomes a $4000 part vs a short shaft of several $$hundred.
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remember my example of how the tail can wag the dog?? here is a great example of how the forces at the tire, reflected back to the driveline can be WAY more impressive! there could have been 1000ft-lbs of torque acting on the driveshaft, after the TOB locked up. the car is moving.... say in 5th and we already determined that it takes about 2000ft-lbs of torque to break the tires free.......... because it happend in 5th gear, at 2:1 , thats 1000ft-lbs on the drive line. if it happened in 2nd, a gear where 300ftlbs can break the tires free, that force wouldnt have broken the driveline.
the point here is.... too bad the short shaft didnt break instead. this becomes a $4000 part vs a short shaft of several $$hundred.
the point here is.... too bad the short shaft didnt break instead. this becomes a $4000 part vs a short shaft of several $$hundred.
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From: Orange, Cal
The trans has to come out, what would be the point of wasting the labor of the R&R to put back a half decent trans vs a rebuilt?
Problem is that broken input shaft I think makes it an unacceptable core to any rebuilder, its just some spare likely unneeded parts right now.
Problem is that broken input shaft I think makes it an unacceptable core to any rebuilder, its just some spare likely unneeded parts right now.