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Old 07-29-2017, 06:10 PM   #42 (permalink)
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What Toyota's engineers do is indistinguishable from magic.

The magnets buried in the laminations reduces back-EMF at high RPMs. I'd never open mine up lest iron filings fly in from all over the neighborhood.

I'm less excited by the open differential since that little oopsie on black ice.
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