I brought up that same point when he first mentioned it. His response was,
"I don't coast for hundreds of miles."
As I said, I believe marking the driveshaft mounting flange is for balance
reasons. I can't think of any other reason why the shop manual would
recommend this (Section B, page 54, step 32). Perhaps the driveshaft could
potentially have a small amount of imbalance to compensate for driveline
vibration? I don't really know, so I followed the advice of the shop manual.
If I took the time and effort to understand every design decision made for
the Tiger, it would probably never feel safe to drive it again.
- John
At 10:08 AM 10/12/2004, you wrote:
>Well, that is curious in several aspects. The first being that towing puts a
>load on the diff gears in the wrong way--does the ASE mechanic never coast ?
>When you take your foot off the gas pedal, you are loading the gears in the
>"wrong way" exactly as in towing. As to the drive shaft balancing, did you
>never have a drive shaft fabricated? They are balanced out of the car on a
>machine. So marking the location on the flange to maintain proper balance
>also makes no sense to me at all. Regardless of what the shop manual says.
>
>I am curious to say the least...anyone have any technical reason to do this?
>
>and all my friends call me just plain ol' mayf
>
>mayf, out in Pahrump...
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