!!!BUY THIS BOOK!!! ??
Thanks to you all.
TJPATTE, you have time to read through it? Hope it was beneficial.
Tom Hand
Hi Tom,
I’ve read through the book a couple of times now and keep learning new things.
As I had PM’d when I first received the book, there are two things in the mechanical world that I truly believed to be evil, automatic transmissions and rear end gears. There is some sort of black magic that goes on in those things just waiting for some unsuspecting schmo like myself to open them up.
Over the past 35 years I have never batted an eye at ripping anything apart and putting it back together. I’ve built roundy round cars, shifter karts, rebuilt Ducati motorcycle engines (Desmodromic valve actuation) and now a drag car and never felt intimidated. My whole life I’ve owned manual transmission vehicles so have been able to avoid that one and rear ends I would take to someone, wizard, exorcist, or TV evangelist to spill virgin blood on and make right. When I decided to build the Dart I had the tranny built and the rear end gears installed by the above people. After reading posts on here and pretty much figuring out I would need to get back into the tranny at some point down the road I did some looking around. I saw the thread on Tom’s book and the great reviews and decided to give it a shot.
For anyone who thinks autos are evil, buy this book. The way Tom has laid it out with pictures and texts is the best I have ever seen in a technical publication and this includes the documentation I use on submarines. The beauty of this book is that it can bring you from the ground up (me) or act as a reference for the experienced. If your nice, he will sign it too!
Now for that rear end……..
Thanks again!
Tom P
