[DML] Re: WANTED: Angle Drive

["welmoedj" <joe.dalton@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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
> 

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