[DeTomaso] Pantera fall down go boom :<(

[Asa Jay Laughton]

I'm no expert, but after looking at the photos of the gear, it's 
apparent the teeth have a very unusual wear pattern.  It's nearly 
"S"-shaped, which I think lends credence to the idea of "shock loading" 
as I think Dan put it when he emailed me.  On load, it wore down one end 
of the tooth, then when unloaded, it was "shocked" to the opposite 
extreme and hammered on the other end of the tooth.  This back and forth 
motion continued until something gave out.  But I do think it might 
explain the wear pattern.

Just my two cents.
Asa Jay

OH, and yea... sorry to hear you had a break down, it's never fun when 
that happens.  Thank you for sharing so we can all learn from these things.

Asa Jay Laughton, MSgt, USAFR, Retired
&  Shelley Marie
Spokane, WA
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On 6/19/2011 4:09 PM, MikeLDrew at aol.com wrote:
> after consultations with Dan, who hadn't heard of such a thing but
> subsequently did research and found other stories of people suffering similar damage to
> mine after running on the rev limiter, regardless of whether they were
> using a timing chain, gears or whatever)