Reverse gear
| Guest |
Friday, September 28, 2007 at 1:50 PM |
Why does the reverse gear in a car go "whangnnnngggaaaaannnnggnnnaaaaanngngnanngnggngaanngngngnannnnnggngngnnaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannng" and all the forward gears are quiet?
| Guest |
Friday, September 28, 2007 at 3:50 PM |
Because engineering and building the gears to be quiet is more expensive, and (hopefully) you spend most of your time going forward.
| Guest |
Tuesday, October 30, 2007 at 3:13 PM |
Also because the reverse gear is a higher ratio gear than any of the forward gears thefore spins more than the others adding to the noise.
| Guest |
Thursday, November 22, 2007 at 10:21 AM |
Because the reverse gears' teith stand inline with their axis. So they lock into each other head on, tooth after tooth. Which u can hear clearly. Forward gears are not straight, more like 60° on the axis. So they lock into each other very fluently.
| Guest |
Thursday, November 22, 2007 at 10:22 AM |
More like 15° i mean,, 60° would be impossible
| Guest |
Sunday, August 03, 2008 at 1:42 AM |
last ones right,the gears are straight cut for reverse,angled for forward gears.Thats why rally/racing cars boxes make the noise going forward because their forward gears are straight cut as well because it makes stronger gears.
| Curtis |
Monday, August 04, 2008 at 11:50 PM |
Good info! (I always wondered about that.)