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Re: GT6s

To: toms@sharebase.com (Tom Sabo)
Subject: Re: GT6s
From: Dick Nyquist <dickn@hpspdbc.vid.hp.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 94 13:30:07 PST
| 
| >I found that the u-joints in the axels have a shorter life then
| >the rotoflexs.
| 
| Given that the GT6 has a lower A arm and fixed length upper arm (spring),

This is only true of the GT6+. Regular GT6s and late markIIIs don't have a 
lower A.


| putting a U-joint in there instead of a rotoflex would cause binding
| in the U-joints.  The rotoflex is there to provide plunge...

Lots of u-joints are splined, (e.g. those in the axels of a TR6)

I do agree that suspension and drive line redesign is not as simple as it 
sometimes seems.

/Dick


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