[DeTomaso] Two Pantera Questions

[JDeRyke at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/17/08 11:08:19 PM, hemipanter at hemipanter.se writes:

> Are you sure the cracking is not comming from vertical loads as the gearbox 
> is trying to lift the engine? In first gear we have 10 times the engine Tq 
> comming out to the rear wheels, making the gearbox trying to rotate around the 
> rear axle.
> 
Could be. And also, really early Pantera ZFs used only 4 bolts to the 
bellhousings rather than the 6 the later ones had (the two big allen bolts inside the 
bellhousing were not there). So case-cracking could have many reasons. FWIW- 
J DeRyke



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