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Old 04-18-2008, 04:31 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Ryland View Post
Why would you bother? compare the cost of replacing the tranny to the cost of a clutch, if you get good at it, and still use the clutch then both the tranny and the clutch should last 1,000,000 miles.
Ditto. I work in the gearing industry. We go to great pains to grind gears to an incredibly high precision to provide maximum torque capacities out of these kind of things. Of course there is a saftey factor built into everything so you can get away with it. But, as Ryland said, why do it when there is a perfectly capable system already in place to do it better?

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