Re: [Fot] A-Type Overdrive Testing

[Randall via Fot <fot@autox.team.net>]

> I didn't spin but I did lock up one rear wheel with a Detroit 
> Locker diff.  Large bang, it didn't like that.  Detroit 
> Locker was OK, but the one way clutch / roller arrangement in 
> the OD broke into multiple pieces.  What's funny is that it 
> still worked perfectly.  

Just a thought: Has anyone tried just leaving out the rollers in the sprag
clutch?  Might need stiffer direct drive springs, and skip the burnouts, but
direct drive in 1st gear seems like the only time the sprag clutch is really
needed; once you've built hydraulic pressure.

-- Randall

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