"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.
>
> The clutch sees the same torque regardless of gear. The output
> shafts and diffs, however, will generally break in first.
>
> 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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