Newbie Questions
#101
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Re: Newbie Questions (going OT)
"JimG" <jimg@cj7_2muchspam.com> wrote in message
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> "CRWLR" <beerman@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> >
> > I think we agree, we just have a different way of expressing the
concept.
> >
>
> Agreed... thanks for your input. ;-)
>
> JimG
>
Thank you all for your input, this has been a learning experience for me.
I do have other questions, but I think I will just wait for the weather to
improve here and ask all of them in one post.
I had asked about the a/c went bending because on a couple of occasions I
have had water drip down on my feet while driving in heavy rain and highway
speeds. At present the a/c went is just a stubby little thing sticking out
of the firewall. Any ideas or solutions. Thanks in advance.
TW
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> "CRWLR" <beerman@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> >
> > I think we agree, we just have a different way of expressing the
concept.
> >
>
> Agreed... thanks for your input. ;-)
>
> JimG
>
Thank you all for your input, this has been a learning experience for me.
I do have other questions, but I think I will just wait for the weather to
improve here and ask all of them in one post.
I had asked about the a/c went bending because on a couple of occasions I
have had water drip down on my feet while driving in heavy rain and highway
speeds. At present the a/c went is just a stubby little thing sticking out
of the firewall. Any ideas or solutions. Thanks in advance.
TW
#102
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Re: Newbie Questions (going OT)
"JimG" <jimg@cj7_2muchspam.com> wrote in message
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> "CRWLR" <beerman@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:vvmb6nesoqmpd0@corp.supernews.com...
> >
> > I think we agree, we just have a different way of expressing the
concept.
> >
>
> Agreed... thanks for your input. ;-)
>
> JimG
>
Thank you all for your input, this has been a learning experience for me.
I do have other questions, but I think I will just wait for the weather to
improve here and ask all of them in one post.
I had asked about the a/c went bending because on a couple of occasions I
have had water drip down on my feet while driving in heavy rain and highway
speeds. At present the a/c went is just a stubby little thing sticking out
of the firewall. Any ideas or solutions. Thanks in advance.
TW
news:nhHKb.47033$242.1916@news02.roc.ny...
> "CRWLR" <beerman@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:vvmb6nesoqmpd0@corp.supernews.com...
> >
> > I think we agree, we just have a different way of expressing the
concept.
> >
>
> Agreed... thanks for your input. ;-)
>
> JimG
>
Thank you all for your input, this has been a learning experience for me.
I do have other questions, but I think I will just wait for the weather to
improve here and ask all of them in one post.
I had asked about the a/c went bending because on a couple of occasions I
have had water drip down on my feet while driving in heavy rain and highway
speeds. At present the a/c went is just a stubby little thing sticking out
of the firewall. Any ideas or solutions. Thanks in advance.
TW
#103
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Re: Newbie Questions (going OT)
"JimG" <jimg@cj7_2muchspam.com> wrote in message
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> "CRWLR" <beerman@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:vvmb6nesoqmpd0@corp.supernews.com...
> >
> > I think we agree, we just have a different way of expressing the
concept.
> >
>
> Agreed... thanks for your input. ;-)
>
> JimG
>
Thank you all for your input, this has been a learning experience for me.
I do have other questions, but I think I will just wait for the weather to
improve here and ask all of them in one post.
I had asked about the a/c went bending because on a couple of occasions I
have had water drip down on my feet while driving in heavy rain and highway
speeds. At present the a/c went is just a stubby little thing sticking out
of the firewall. Any ideas or solutions. Thanks in advance.
TW
news:nhHKb.47033$242.1916@news02.roc.ny...
> "CRWLR" <beerman@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:vvmb6nesoqmpd0@corp.supernews.com...
> >
> > I think we agree, we just have a different way of expressing the
concept.
> >
>
> Agreed... thanks for your input. ;-)
>
> JimG
>
Thank you all for your input, this has been a learning experience for me.
I do have other questions, but I think I will just wait for the weather to
improve here and ask all of them in one post.
I had asked about the a/c went bending because on a couple of occasions I
have had water drip down on my feet while driving in heavy rain and highway
speeds. At present the a/c went is just a stubby little thing sticking out
of the firewall. Any ideas or solutions. Thanks in advance.
TW
#104
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Re: Newbie Questions
"JimG" <jimg@cj7_2muchspam.com> wrote in message
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> I was going to get out this conversation... but I can't help it :-)
>
> "-jc" <SpamFree@DieSpammers.com> wrote in message
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> >
> > Gear ratio 3.73:1 is higher than 4.56:1
>
> When you say "higher" what do you mean?
> (It sounds like your saying "higher ratio")
>
> This is the whole point of my argument... 3.73:1 is a lower "ratio" than
> 4.56:1 (ask your math teacher).
>
> The OP (poor guy... all he wanted was a simple answer) asked:
> "1) How difficult and expensive would it be to go to a higher ratio?
> (addition to my wish list)"
>
> And CRWLR wrote:
> "First, you want a lower ratio, which is a higher numeric value."
>
> That's where I disagreed...
> The OP is correct in wanting a "higher" ring/pinion gear ratio which
> produces a more power to turn bigger tires, what we call a lower gear.
>
> We all agree that 4.56:1 is a lower "gear" than 3.73:1
>
> > Fuel/oil Ratio 25:1 is leaner than 50:1
> Agreed
>
>
Think in terms of the transmission. 1st gear, the lowest gear is probably
something on the order of 4.22:1. The engine and input shaft go around 4.22
times for 1 revolution of the output shaft. The highest gear is 5th, with a
ratio of about .73 to 1, where the input shaft goes around less than once
for each revolution of the output shaft.
Every time you select a new gear (by shifting), you effectively do the same
thing as a R&P swap. If you do an R&P swap to a higher numerical value
(changinf from 3.07s to 4.56s, for example), you are downshifting to a lower
gear. Obviously regearing the diffs and downshifting are not the same at
all, but for the purposes of illustrating the higher and lower gear ratios,
it works reasonably well. If you had to drive around in 1st all day, you
couldn't go very fast, but you would have gobs of power, and if you had to
drive around in 5th all day, starting going would be painful indeed, but you
could go as fast as you wanted.
Regearing the diffs to lower gear ratios allows you to go slower in a low
gear than you would otherwise go, but it also limits the top speed. What it
does in the middle though is it raises the engine speed relative to the
ground speed in order to get the power band back to a normal location after
getting larger tires. If you regeared the diffs to a lower ratio, but
retained the original tire size, you would find that you could not maintain
the same cruising speed as before. You get the crusing speed back by
regearing after larger tires are installed. What happens with the larger
tires is that the engine speed drops relative to the ground speed, and it
can drop so low as to be outside of the power band. Without regearing, and
installing larger tires, you might find that going slow is difficult, and
5th gear no longer works because the power band is gone in that gear.
#105
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Re: Newbie Questions
"JimG" <jimg@cj7_2muchspam.com> wrote in message
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> I was going to get out this conversation... but I can't help it :-)
>
> "-jc" <SpamFree@DieSpammers.com> wrote in message
> news:btfl4i$p08$1@heap.juniper.net...
> >
> > Gear ratio 3.73:1 is higher than 4.56:1
>
> When you say "higher" what do you mean?
> (It sounds like your saying "higher ratio")
>
> This is the whole point of my argument... 3.73:1 is a lower "ratio" than
> 4.56:1 (ask your math teacher).
>
> The OP (poor guy... all he wanted was a simple answer) asked:
> "1) How difficult and expensive would it be to go to a higher ratio?
> (addition to my wish list)"
>
> And CRWLR wrote:
> "First, you want a lower ratio, which is a higher numeric value."
>
> That's where I disagreed...
> The OP is correct in wanting a "higher" ring/pinion gear ratio which
> produces a more power to turn bigger tires, what we call a lower gear.
>
> We all agree that 4.56:1 is a lower "gear" than 3.73:1
>
> > Fuel/oil Ratio 25:1 is leaner than 50:1
> Agreed
>
>
Think in terms of the transmission. 1st gear, the lowest gear is probably
something on the order of 4.22:1. The engine and input shaft go around 4.22
times for 1 revolution of the output shaft. The highest gear is 5th, with a
ratio of about .73 to 1, where the input shaft goes around less than once
for each revolution of the output shaft.
Every time you select a new gear (by shifting), you effectively do the same
thing as a R&P swap. If you do an R&P swap to a higher numerical value
(changinf from 3.07s to 4.56s, for example), you are downshifting to a lower
gear. Obviously regearing the diffs and downshifting are not the same at
all, but for the purposes of illustrating the higher and lower gear ratios,
it works reasonably well. If you had to drive around in 1st all day, you
couldn't go very fast, but you would have gobs of power, and if you had to
drive around in 5th all day, starting going would be painful indeed, but you
could go as fast as you wanted.
Regearing the diffs to lower gear ratios allows you to go slower in a low
gear than you would otherwise go, but it also limits the top speed. What it
does in the middle though is it raises the engine speed relative to the
ground speed in order to get the power band back to a normal location after
getting larger tires. If you regeared the diffs to a lower ratio, but
retained the original tire size, you would find that you could not maintain
the same cruising speed as before. You get the crusing speed back by
regearing after larger tires are installed. What happens with the larger
tires is that the engine speed drops relative to the ground speed, and it
can drop so low as to be outside of the power band. Without regearing, and
installing larger tires, you might find that going slow is difficult, and
5th gear no longer works because the power band is gone in that gear.
#106
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Re: Newbie Questions
"JimG" <jimg@cj7_2muchspam.com> wrote in message
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> I was going to get out this conversation... but I can't help it :-)
>
> "-jc" <SpamFree@DieSpammers.com> wrote in message
> news:btfl4i$p08$1@heap.juniper.net...
> >
> > Gear ratio 3.73:1 is higher than 4.56:1
>
> When you say "higher" what do you mean?
> (It sounds like your saying "higher ratio")
>
> This is the whole point of my argument... 3.73:1 is a lower "ratio" than
> 4.56:1 (ask your math teacher).
>
> The OP (poor guy... all he wanted was a simple answer) asked:
> "1) How difficult and expensive would it be to go to a higher ratio?
> (addition to my wish list)"
>
> And CRWLR wrote:
> "First, you want a lower ratio, which is a higher numeric value."
>
> That's where I disagreed...
> The OP is correct in wanting a "higher" ring/pinion gear ratio which
> produces a more power to turn bigger tires, what we call a lower gear.
>
> We all agree that 4.56:1 is a lower "gear" than 3.73:1
>
> > Fuel/oil Ratio 25:1 is leaner than 50:1
> Agreed
>
>
Think in terms of the transmission. 1st gear, the lowest gear is probably
something on the order of 4.22:1. The engine and input shaft go around 4.22
times for 1 revolution of the output shaft. The highest gear is 5th, with a
ratio of about .73 to 1, where the input shaft goes around less than once
for each revolution of the output shaft.
Every time you select a new gear (by shifting), you effectively do the same
thing as a R&P swap. If you do an R&P swap to a higher numerical value
(changinf from 3.07s to 4.56s, for example), you are downshifting to a lower
gear. Obviously regearing the diffs and downshifting are not the same at
all, but for the purposes of illustrating the higher and lower gear ratios,
it works reasonably well. If you had to drive around in 1st all day, you
couldn't go very fast, but you would have gobs of power, and if you had to
drive around in 5th all day, starting going would be painful indeed, but you
could go as fast as you wanted.
Regearing the diffs to lower gear ratios allows you to go slower in a low
gear than you would otherwise go, but it also limits the top speed. What it
does in the middle though is it raises the engine speed relative to the
ground speed in order to get the power band back to a normal location after
getting larger tires. If you regeared the diffs to a lower ratio, but
retained the original tire size, you would find that you could not maintain
the same cruising speed as before. You get the crusing speed back by
regearing after larger tires are installed. What happens with the larger
tires is that the engine speed drops relative to the ground speed, and it
can drop so low as to be outside of the power band. Without regearing, and
installing larger tires, you might find that going slow is difficult, and
5th gear no longer works because the power band is gone in that gear.
#107
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Re: Newbie Questions (going OT)
"TW" <a t t w @ w a v e . c o . n z> wrote in message
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> "JimG" <jimg@cj7_2muchspam.com> wrote in message
> news:nhHKb.47033$242.1916@news02.roc.ny...
> > "CRWLR" <beerman@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> > news:vvmb6nesoqmpd0@corp.supernews.com...
> > >
> > > I think we agree, we just have a different way of expressing the
> concept.
> > >
> >
> > Agreed... thanks for your input. ;-)
> >
> > JimG
> >
>
> Thank you all for your input, this has been a learning experience for me.
> I do have other questions, but I think I will just wait for the weather to
> improve here and ask all of them in one post.
>
> I had asked about the a/c went bending because on a couple of occasions I
> have had water drip down on my feet while driving in heavy rain and
highway
> speeds. At present the a/c went is just a stubby little thing sticking
out
> of the firewall. Any ideas or solutions. Thanks in advance.
>
I had an AC that dripped once, the hose was plugged with a ball of lint.
Kind of like belly button lint on steroids.
#108
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Re: Newbie Questions (going OT)
"TW" <a t t w @ w a v e . c o . n z> wrote in message
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> "JimG" <jimg@cj7_2muchspam.com> wrote in message
> news:nhHKb.47033$242.1916@news02.roc.ny...
> > "CRWLR" <beerman@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> > news:vvmb6nesoqmpd0@corp.supernews.com...
> > >
> > > I think we agree, we just have a different way of expressing the
> concept.
> > >
> >
> > Agreed... thanks for your input. ;-)
> >
> > JimG
> >
>
> Thank you all for your input, this has been a learning experience for me.
> I do have other questions, but I think I will just wait for the weather to
> improve here and ask all of them in one post.
>
> I had asked about the a/c went bending because on a couple of occasions I
> have had water drip down on my feet while driving in heavy rain and
highway
> speeds. At present the a/c went is just a stubby little thing sticking
out
> of the firewall. Any ideas or solutions. Thanks in advance.
>
I had an AC that dripped once, the hose was plugged with a ball of lint.
Kind of like belly button lint on steroids.
#109
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Re: Newbie Questions (going OT)
"TW" <a t t w @ w a v e . c o . n z> wrote in message
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> "JimG" <jimg@cj7_2muchspam.com> wrote in message
> news:nhHKb.47033$242.1916@news02.roc.ny...
> > "CRWLR" <beerman@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> > news:vvmb6nesoqmpd0@corp.supernews.com...
> > >
> > > I think we agree, we just have a different way of expressing the
> concept.
> > >
> >
> > Agreed... thanks for your input. ;-)
> >
> > JimG
> >
>
> Thank you all for your input, this has been a learning experience for me.
> I do have other questions, but I think I will just wait for the weather to
> improve here and ask all of them in one post.
>
> I had asked about the a/c went bending because on a couple of occasions I
> have had water drip down on my feet while driving in heavy rain and
highway
> speeds. At present the a/c went is just a stubby little thing sticking
out
> of the firewall. Any ideas or solutions. Thanks in advance.
>
I had an AC that dripped once, the hose was plugged with a ball of lint.
Kind of like belly button lint on steroids.
#110
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Re: Newbie Questions
"TW" <a t t w @ w a v e . c o . n z> wrote in message
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> "JimG" <jimg@cj7_2muchspam.com> wrote in message
> news:8RlKb.35046$p82.18667@news01.roc.ny...
> >
> >
> > When you say torch, some will think you are going to burn a new vent
hole
> > yourself (with an acetylene torch), or keep your coffee hot. Having
> > traveled "down under" a bit, I recon you're talking about a flashlight.
> >
> > JimG
> >
>
> Man we live in an interesting world. Yes, I meant flashlight but
> unfortunately it has been raining for the past 24 hours and I don't have a
> covered garage. I'll just have to wait.
>
Wait for what? Just fire up that torch and go check the gas tank. You'll be
warm enough soon ... :-)