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- Subject: Re: All-Wheel Drive/4x4 Questions.
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- From: dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams)
- Date: 23 Dec 92 18:59:00 GMT
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- -> good for serious 4WD. Some modern systems use a "viscous coupling",
- -> a magic material which is nominally a liquid but solidifies in
- -> the presence of significant center slippage. These couplers are not
- -> used with high torque engines (unfortunately, as they sound
- -> wonderful).
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- They *are* wonderful. Ask anyone with a Jensen FF!
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- "I'd like a small late-1960s British sedan with the engine compartment
- crammed full of 440-4BBL Chrysler wedge, please. Add the Torqueflite,
- air conditioning, Dunlop Maxaret antiskid, and Ferguson full time four
- wheel drive. Uh... yeah, I'll take the leather interior too. Can you
- have it delivered?"
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- Like the Maserati Biturbo or Yenko Nova, the Jensen FF is one of those
- cars that simply look so *ordinary*...
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- can you help me...help me get out of this place?...slow sedation...
- ain't my style, ain't my pace...giving me a number...NINE, SEVEN, EIGHT
- (Nazareth) XJ900 TURBO at 15psi DoD# 978 KotFAQ
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