Could someone please explain the benefits of a dual mass flywheel over a conventional flywheel, and are these benefits sufficient to counter the high level of problems/breakdowns associated with this technology.
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Thanks N.C. for the excellent link, - still seems to me to be an unecessary complication and additional problem source.
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Thanks N.C. for the excellent link, - still seems to me to be an unecessary complication and additional problem source.
The trouble is that they are a neccessary evil for diesels otherwise a good bit of the refinement would be lost due to vibration transmission through the flywheel/clutch and gearbox etc.
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LandRovers with diesel engines did, and possibly still do, have an additional sort of rubber-bonded flywheel bolted externally on the gearbox output flange.
I fitted one to my petrol LandRover and it had an incredible effect of smoothing the transmission, and made gearchanging much easier because it eliminated the ricocheting effect as the long drive chain wound and unwound as the drive was released.
Being external it only took about 10 minutes to fit.
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