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Re: Setting Pinion Angle Question

To: "Dick J" <lsr_man@yahoo.com>, "Dan Warner"
Subject: Re: Setting Pinion Angle Question
From: "Ron Gibson" <rgg14@cox.net>
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 1980 22:34:55 -0600
Dick
  Check www.drivetrain.com/driveline_angle_problem.html
Should answer all your questions about shafts.

Ron Gibson, Omaha NE


> I sure hope somebody here can explain this to me.
>
> Normally, when setting pinion angle in a street car or street/drag car,
the pinion is set with about 7degrees negative angle; the driveshaft angles
to the rear of the transmission at around 3 degrees, and the transmission
yoke has a positive setting approximately opposite (7 degrees) of what the
pinion was. That makes zero final angles.





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