"Slip Slidin' Away"...
Brett Dikeman
quattro at brettd.dsl.speakeasy.net
Sun Jul 1 00:44:33 EDT 2001
Doh. Sorry. Very, very, very bad weekend. Wasn't thinking...
B
On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, James Marriott wrote:
> > The simple explanation is that the car didn't have enough
> torque to break
> > the clutch's grip in 5th gear...but has plenty in 1st.
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> The clutch sees the same torque regardless of gear. The output
> shafts and diffs, however, will generally break in first.
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> cu, James Marriott
> '87 4kq (alias "late-B2 90q") with rare NG engine, 181k
> '89 200q (MC1, ProconTen/no bag, 1.8 blah blah), 132k
> Boise, ID, USA http://www.webpak.net/~marriott/
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