Transmission questions
Huw Powell
audi at humanspeakers.com
Thu Apr 23 11:07:28 PDT 2009
urq wrote:
> .... I believe they are referring to the gear ratios inside the transmission,
> but you are correct that having unequal FDRs in the diffs can cause
> excessive differentiation in the center diff, which may cause excessive
> wear.
>
> I owned a 5000 TQ which had different ratios in the front and rear diff ....
> I didn't figure that out before buying the car ... I don't know how long the
> car had this configuration, but it didn't show any signs of center diff
> wear.
I think the main "problem" with "continuous differentiation" (other than
it sounds like tough calculus?) is that power is being transmitted by
the small spider gears all the time, and they aren't really built for
that. In straight line travel, for instance, they only keep the output
gears in sync, other than that they are just along for the ride.
--
Huw Powell
http://www.humanspeakers.com/audi
http://www.humanthoughts.org/
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