[DML] Re: WANTED: Angle Drive

["David Teitelbaum" <jtrealty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't know of any way to tell without actually opening the unit.
Many units were used as "cores" so an origional looking angle drive
could have been "fixed" with the metal gears.
David Teitelbaum
vin 10757


--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "welmoedj" <joe.dalton@...> wrote:
>
> Hi David,
> 
> Just out of curiosity: how does one recognize an angle drive with
> plastic gears (not opening an angle drive that still works)?
> Is there something on the outside that helps identifying the inside?
> 
> Welmoed.
> 
> 
> --- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "David Teitelbaum" <jtrealty@>
> wrote:
> >
> > Someone explain how  some cars still are running with the origional
> > angle drive with the plastic gears and others (a small number
> > presumably) go through 4 angle drives with metal gears. There has to
> > be something wrong with the cars that can chew up the metal gears.
> It
> > would be interesting to pull the speedometer heads on those cars and
> > possibly find parts jamming the works. Either that or some other
> > problem like a cable that is too long, a missing lower support, etc.
> > Bulletproofing the angle drive is only covering up the basic problem
> > IMHO. An interesting point, on the cars that destroy the origional
> > plastic gears the same cars are also capable of destroying the metal
> > gears. Why is that when other cars can live with the plastic gears?
> > David Teitelbaum
> > vin 10757
> >
> 
> [long quote trimmed by moderator]
>




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