Perhaps the plastic part he referred to is the grease cap with the square hole. Scott Mueller 002981 -----Original Message----- From: wingd2@xxxx [mailto:wingd2@xxxx] Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 11:17 AM To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [DML] RE: [doc] Speedograph Richfield was Smiths Industries In a message dated 3/14/02 7:53:08 AM Central Standard Time, chrisparnham@xxxx writes: > He mentioned something which I had not thought about, The reason they use > rather flimsy plastic gears in the angle drives is so they can act as a kind > of "fuse" in-case of cable / lambarda or speedo problems. He says using much > stronger metal gears could cause other problems Chris, I find this very interesting. Every Delorean angle drive I've rebuilt, and it's been quite a few, has had metal gears in it. I've never taken a Delorean angle drive apart that has had plastic gears inside. Marty