[elky] Re: Now I know why...
- From: Robert Adams <elcam84@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: elky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 08:28:02 -0500
Yeah those only worked on very low powered engines hence
why they haven't been used for quite a while till Ford and a few others
tried it again and renamed them CVT transmissions. If they made an access
cover so you could easily get to the belt and pulleys so you could replace
them it wouldn't be so bad. The problem that the old CVTs had and the new
ones to a lesser extent was that they didn't gear down enough when coming
to a stop. As you started moving again it was sluggish until the car had
moved enough for the cones to move. Also reverse was a pain to add to them
due to needing an idler.
The go cart ones were called comet drives and were almost
exactly the same thing and Comet still makes them today.
Robert Adams
On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 12:46 PM, John Christensen <johncgg@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> That is interesting. The transmission sounds like something on an old
> go-cart with the clutch thingy.
>
> Got to get out to a car show soon...... I am having withdrawal.
>
> JC
>
>
> On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Ray Buck <rbuck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> According to a guy who builds race transmissions for a living, this is
>> about normal...at least in his world. I'm sure there are others who'd do
>> it for less, and I'm looking into that. But still...yanno, I wonder how
>> hard it would be to do it myself. I've never dug into an automatic trans.
>> Something else to consider.
>>
>> Btw, I shot a car show yesterday and one of the cars there was quite an
>> oddball. A 1967 DAF:
>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> Count the number of wires on the distributor cap. Yep, 3. One for the
>> coil. Opposed 2 cylinder. But the kicker is its transmission. It's
>> called "Variomatic." Stepless, infinitely variable ratio belt drive.
>> Totally wacko. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variomatic
>>
>> r
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>> On 5/19/2012 9:34 AM, STILLFRANKSFAULT@xxxxxxx wrote:
>>
>> OMG that's highway robbery, 600-800 for a disassemble and reassemble
>> with no parts. Please tell me this is a joke when you say only.
>>
>> Smokey Mt Frank
>>
>> In a message dated 5/19/2012 11:06:13 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>> rbuck@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>>
>> The estimate to swap guts from one case to another is only $600-800.
>> Cheap at half the price. :)
>>
>> r
>>
>>
>> On 5/17/2012 5:56 AM, STILLFRANKSFAULT@xxxxxxx wrote:
>>
>> Well Ray, in theory, the only thing you need is a case. Why rebuild
>> another trans. Just swap all the internals to a new case.
>> Or was there more damage?
>> Smokey Mt Frank
>>
>> In a message dated 5/16/2012 10:28:19 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>> rbuck@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>>
>>
>>
>> Color me stupid. I should have seen it when I pulled the pan. But I
>> didn't.
>>
>>
>>
>> I didn't lose too much time on that, tho. I finally got the tranny out
>> tonite:
>>
>>
>>
>> It's real broke.
>>
>> I'm starting to re-think things. If this transmission repair is gonna be
>> real spendy, I may put off running the car this year and see about putting
>> a Tremec 3550 or T56 into it. I'm not sure right now. But I'm hurtin and
>> tired and filthy. (Maybe that last part is why the x-wife left, ya think?)
>>
>> r
>>
>>
>> On 5/14/2012 3:16 PM, STILLFRANKSFAULT@xxxxxxx wrote:
>>
>> OMG, Your kidding right .............. how did you miss that split. I
>> could see if there was a crack in the case, but that's huge.
>>
>> Smokey Mt Frank
>>
>> In a message dated 5/14/2012 3:01:03 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>> rbuck@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>>
>> ...the transmission ain't workin:
>>
>>
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