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Originally Posted by Norm Peterson
It's where teeth are ground off the gears, sliders, and synchro rings. The idea apparently being to provide bigger gaps so that the synchros and the sliders would engage at a greater rpm difference. Every other tooth was the way I always heard it, though 2 out of every three seems to have been done as well.
There's more to it than that, and the following link is a pretty good description of it all.
http://atraonline.com/gears/2006/2006-05/2006_05_60.pdf
Norm |
Interesting. That's a good read. I have never heard of anyone doing that in any 90's-present manual.