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Subject:Re: CV Joint advice
From:David Beierl
Date:Thu, 8 Jul 1999 15:41:43 -0400

At 14:57 7/8/99 -0400, L&A Johnson wrote:
>To help in visualizing this, take a pencil. mark each end with the opposite
>torque directions. Now flip the pencil end for end. You will see that the
>torque
>directions are the same. Now imagine the pencil on the other side of the
>differential where the applied torque is in the other direction. You will see
>that the applied and reactive torque directions are opposite to the directions
>marked on the pencil.
>
>I know, I know, this explanation is as clear as CV grease. Ask Joel how to
>clean

No, it's beautiful.  I was *sure* you were wrong...but that pencil is
staring me in the face <g>.  Thanks.

david
David Beierl - dbeierl@ibm.net