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1. [TR] high engine rpm (score: 1): Author: <acs25m@swbell.net>; Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 15:36:41 -0500; I own a TR250 that I am having problems with. The car had 185/65r 15 tires on it when purchased. I knew that these were not the right size tires and it was causing my Speedo to be off. Well I recentl; /html/triumphs/2007-07/msg00351.html (7,830 bytes)
2. Re: [TR] high engine rpm (score: 1): Author: "Terry Geiger" <tgeiger@shoalsbritishcars.org>; Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 15:48:44 -0500; Check your tach against a known good tach as the tachs can become inaccurate over time. An electric tach can be used to test with. Your car should be running about 3000 rpm at 60 mph in top gear (as; /html/triumphs/2007-07/msg00352.html (8,896 bytes)
3. Re: [TR] high engine rpm (score: 1): Author: "Randall" <tr3driver@ca.rr.com>; Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 13:55:58 -0700; Could be the tach is wrong. Should be closer to 2900 rpm (with 205/70-15 tires & 3.7 gears), and reading 600 rpm high isn't terribly uncommon for these old mechanical tachs. Lots of ways. If you jac; /html/triumphs/2007-07/msg00353.html (8,823 bytes)
4. Re: [TR] high engine rpm (score: 1): Author: <jimmuller@rcn.com>; Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 17:45:49 -0400 (EDT); Through the clever use of advance technology before the development of microprocessors, Triumph engineers were able to make the engine speed and road speed track linearly with each other no matter wh; /html/triumphs/2007-07/msg00355.html (8,417 bytes)
5. Re: [TR] high engine rpm (score: 1): Author: KURT JOHNSON <kajohns64@yahoo.com>; Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 18:05:21 -0700 (PDT); http://people.umass.edu/tcroy/articles/differential.htm ____________________________________________________________________________________ We won't tell. Get more on shows you hate to love (and lov; /html/triumphs/2007-07/msg00358.html (9,075 bytes)
6. Re: [TR] high engine rpm (score: 1): Author: "Joe Curry" <spitlist@cox.net>; Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 18:13:40 -0700; You can jack up the rear of the car and while preventing one rear wheel from turning, rotate the drive shaft and count the number of revolutions that the drive shaft must be rotated to cause the fre; /html/triumphs/2007-07/msg00359.html (10,125 bytes)
7. Re: [TR] high engine rpm (score: 1): Author: pethier@comcast.net; Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 04:30:45 +0000; You are off by a factor of 2. :-) -- Phil Ethier West Side Saint Paul Minnesota USA 1962 Triumph TR4 CT2846L, 1992 Saturn SL2, 1993 Suburban, 1994 Miata C package pethier [at] comcast [dot] net http:; /html/triumphs/2007-07/msg00362.html (8,314 bytes)
8. Re: [TR] high engine rpm (score: 1): Author: DLylis@aol.com; Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 07:47:10 EDT; You are off by a factor of 2. :-) Please explain. I would have said the same thing. David Lylis 69 TR6 CC26160L 60 TR3A TS74461LO ** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/mem; /html/triumphs/2007-07/msg00365.html (7,629 bytes)
9. Re: [TR] high engine rpm (score: 1): Author: "Joe Curry" <spitlist@cox.net>; Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 08:22:01 -0700; Yes, Please explain. The ratio is what it is and therefore I don't understand what you mean by "off by a factor of 2". Joe --Original Message-- From: triumphs-bounces+spitlist=cox.net@autox.team.net; /html/triumphs/2007-07/msg00367.html (8,560 bytes)
10. Re: [TR] high engine rpm (score: 1): Author: "Mark J. Bradakis" <mark@bradakis.com>; Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 12:14:20 -0600; If you had a welded diff where the axles on each side were NOT free to move indepentently then you'd be fine with the simple test. But since you hold one wheel steady and turn the other, you are mak; /html/triumphs/2007-07/msg00370.html (8,760 bytes)
11. Re: [TR] high engine rpm (score: 1): Author: "Joe Curry" <spitlist@cox.net>; Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 12:35:25 -0700; In your example, you would not be able to keep 0ne wheel stationary because a locked (welded) diff would force both wheels to move together. I tried several different methods a few years ago to see; /html/triumphs/2007-07/msg00371.html (9,954 bytes)
12. Re: [TR] high engine rpm (score: 1): Author: DLylis@aol.com; Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 17:51:10 EDT; OK. let's imagine for a moment that we have a car with a 3.7:1 differential and it is sitting with one wheel on dry pavement, and the other wheel is on ice. You Northern guys ought to get this! You g; /html/triumphs/2007-07/msg00373.html (8,546 bytes)
13. Re: [TR] high engine rpm (score: 1): Author: "Joe Curry" <spitlist@cox.net>; Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 15:19:55 -0700; That situation is a whole different issue. In my scenario, I have one wheel set so that it does not turn at all. In your scenario, you really can't know or control what either of the two wheels are; /html/triumphs/2007-07/msg00376.html (9,473 bytes)
14. Re: [TR] high engine rpm (score: 1): Author: "Mark J. Bradakis" <mark@bradakis.com>; Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 18:27:34 -0600; wheel set so that it does Actually what he describes is *exactly* the same - the wheel on dry pavement does not turn at all - all the torque goes to the wheel on the ice that offers no resistance. m; /html/triumphs/2007-07/msg00378.html (8,236 bytes)
15. Re: [TR] high engine rpm (score: 1): Author: "Joe Curry" <spitlist@cox.net>; Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 17:49:39 -0700; Well, It would appear to be that way , but there is no way at all to know how many revolutions the drive shaft is turning and thus measure the ratio. To be able to determine the ratio without disasse; /html/triumphs/2007-07/msg00380.html (9,125 bytes)
16. Re: [TR] high engine rpm (score: 1): Author: "wbeech" <wbeech@flash.net>; Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 18:57:46 -0600; --==0415165831== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1250" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Jack it up, put a chalk mark on the d/s and the wheel and turn the shaft by hand, counting revs, unti; /html/triumphs/2007-07/msg00381.html (10,479 bytes)
17. Re: [TR] high engine rpm (score: 1): Author: "Joe Curry" <spitlist@cox.net>; Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 19:07:55 -0700; That is precisely the procedure that I proposed. However, I did mention that you ought to keep one wheel from spinning so that you remove the differential effect. Joe --Original Message-- From: triu; /html/triumphs/2007-07/msg00383.html (10,601 bytes)
18. Re: [TR] high engine rpm (score: 1): Author: "Mark J. Bradakis" <mark@bradakis.com>; Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 23:08:24 -0600; Sheesh. If both axles turn together at the same rate, so there is no difference in their movement relative to each other, then there is no differential effect. If you hold one wheel stationary and t; /html/triumphs/2007-07/msg00411.html (8,883 bytes)
19. Re: [TR] high engine rpm (score: 1): Author: "Joe Curry" <spitlist@cox.net>; Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 22:54:21 -0700; I am pretty sure that if you do not secure one wheel, one will spin backward relative to the other with an open diff. Don't ask me to explain it but that is what I have noticed when I tried it. I am; /html/triumphs/2007-07/msg00412.html (9,578 bytes)
20. Re: [TR] high engine rpm (score: 1): Author: Michael Porter <portermd@zianet.com>; Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 02:13:28 -0600; Okay, I have just done what I should have done when this brouhaha began. I went out into my generally unnavigable, overstuffed garage, dragged the GT6 diff out from under the bench (the one with the; /html/triumphs/2007-07/msg00414.html (10,656 bytes)

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