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What made freewheel break?
Posted by RayF (more from RayF) on Fri, 7 Jan 2005 14:37:20
In Reply to: should freewheel be reintroduced?, chuck, Tue, 6 Jul 2004 16:18:29
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I had one of those 99s. There was a lever on the console near the shifter, and it linked to a lever up front alongside the clutch cover area by a cable. Pull back and hook it and you were in f. mode, let it go forward and you were back to normal. (Ain't memory wonderful, I can see both of those levers in my mind's eye as if it were yesterday and it's about 30 years ago.) I think the cable was a weak link; only breaking I can imagine is in not being able to engage it or to disengage it cause I don't think the cars had the power to rip the freewheeling clutch apart. (Other weaker links in the tranny would and did bust first.)
There is a safety consideration whether to bring back freewheeling: i.e., in hilly terrain engine braking from downshifting is a great aid to handling and also your failsafe method of slowing a car or, with car in gear and ignition off, of stopping it, should brakes fail. With freewheeling stuck on, or simply if you failed to disengage it in a panic situation, you'd have no engine braking.
A freewheeling clutch works on the same principle as the rig on top of a lawnmower engine that lets your pull starter spin the motor, or like those smooth ratchet-less ratchets: roller bearings inside a race that's tapered and gets tighter towards one direction, so they jam between the race and the shaft with motion that way, but roll free with reverse motion.
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