[DMCForum] Re: Angle Drive Cable (Martin)

["content22207" <brobertson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If I don't have time to swap my lower engine casting, I certainly
don't have time to swap a bunch of transmission guts.

Besides, do I REALLY want to go through the hassle of remating the
transmission through those tiny splines again?

One of these days I'll be rich & famous, then I'll buy a reproduction
angle drive. I do need to check out replacing the two cables with one
long one (Lambda counter does me absolutely no good).

I've also heard Volkswagens called "Punch Buggies", but I like
"Doodlebug" better.

After screwing around with my DeLo all afternoon won't tell you what
I'm calling it now... (Broken seat belt retractor. I'm planning to
replace them with a couple of Ford retractors).

Bill Robertson
#5939

>--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Martin Gutkowski <martin@xxxx> wrote:
> Want to buy a Renault 30 gearbox casing? I want yours back in
exchange tho
> 
> I thought a doodlebug was a V1 flying bomb. Did Porsche really take a 
> mechanical speed drive from the rear? Learn something every day...
> 
> Martin
> 
> content22207 wrote:
> 
> > I most emphatically do *NOT* agree with you. Where do rear engine
> > Porsches take off? From the transmission. Where do Doodlebugs take
> > off? From the transmission. There's a very good possibility the
> > speedometer cables in my front engine Lincolns are even long enough a
> > DeLo transmission.
> >
> > It's just another piece of questionable DMC engineering. The car is
> > full of ideas that looked better on paper than they turned out in
> > reality.
> >
> > It's hard to change an engineer's mind once he or she has gotten a
> > preconceived notion into it.
> >
> > That is unless the angle drive was thrown on the car in those last
> > minutes rush to production.
> >
> > Bill Robertson
> > #5939

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