65sixbanger
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I like the gear noise, you can also rev it up to about 800 and it goes away for me
What's Mel talkin aboot here with the 3rd option? Link old and deadThere probably was some bright engineers involved in making it. There are over 50 individual pieces in a DMF! Each one precision designed, with somebody sweating over a hot drawing board getting pencil lead and eraser dust on their fingers. AND... I would be willing to bet the thing was designed... and redesigned.... and tweaked.... and probably a whole team of people wrestled with the thing until they were blue in the face from looking at it. The reality is, it was a huge engineering effort to do one simple thing, and that is to make an alluminum transmission quiet at idle. Because the ZF doesn't use "a real man's gear lube" like the stout case iron T-19 does, there is nothing to keep the gears from bouncing off each other at low RPM with no load. So a SMF on a ZF sounds like an orbital floor sander on a hollow body guitar. Most of us that prefer the simplicity and reliability of the SMF and live with the noise.
The good news however, is that soon a 3rd option will be available! Check it out!
I seen a thread on how to load the dmf to test it, can't find it now but seen something about 500 foot pounds? If mine test ok I will run them