I heard this clunking almost 2 months ago, coming from the transmission area...
Turns out I annihilated my ring gear and one of the gears on the 1-2 gear set and the spider gears in the differential. After almost 2 months of being down, a transmission from Matt Linke and about 6 hours of work she lives again.
More pics soon as I stop shaking from the excitement of the car being back on the road again
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ohhhhhhh yeeeeah!
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how did I know this was you when I saw the title on the home page...
Good to hear curt.. now maybe you can get some actually good pictures of the car
Nice that car must take a beating.
Glad I could help, just sorry that I couldnt be there to help you install it.
Im washing the car tonight or tomorrow night in hopes that you can bring yours here and we can do a shoot of some kind.
"A car just isn't a car without a little blood, sweat, and beers." -- Shadowfire
Stephen - Cuz you knew my car was broken and I have been workin on gettin her back on the road.
NighmaresCavy - There is rarely a day that she doesn't see wot at least 2 or 3 times.
ecotecpower - Very soon my friend very soon.
Matt - Red, White, and Blue FTMFW! McLovin will be there too
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did you just put a stock trans in or did you get your insert??
My Sig Was To Big
im interested on what you plan on doing to ensure the diff dosnt explode , kinda how mine did 3 weeks ago. I have 4 inch of play on both drive axles, thats good right?..lol
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Glad to see it back on the road
still as fast as you were right before you shattered it ?
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^lol it was fast even when broken!
About what time you think?
"A car just isn't a car without a little blood, sweat, and beers." -- Shadowfire
well it was fast when I was riding in it working well, and 2 sec later when it was broke lol..
I feel like it was my fault since he was showing me how fast it is with the new dual valve springs ( which made a huge difference ) and then Snap ...
Oh well.. its fixed now, ill be up soon for a tweak and another ride and pics ?
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How many other people have had this problem??
I am on my 3rd diff already in 69k miles!!!!!!
This is only my 3rd trans and only the second diff. It would only be my 2nd trans had I known how to rebuild them a few years ago when I broke a shift fork. That's about 70,000 miles of me pounding the crap outta it. This is only the first time I've blown a diff. Considering driving habits and power going through the trans, I'd say 70k is pretty damn good. So what if I have to do this every 4.5 years to me it's worth it to have a car that I actaully like and enjoy.
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congrats on being able to drive it again
if you explode another one could try a obx lsd... i have one in my trans havent really been able to fully test it out but so far its taken the abuse
R.I.P. Brian Klocke, you will never be forgotten
Fetter: Did they finally get that @!#$ straighted out w/ the f23 and f35?
Linke: See you Saturday
Karnage: You cant take all the credit im pretty sure I was in the car when it initially happen w/o the duals
Skunk: See you tonight you impatient @!#$....i was kinda hoping to work on the car...but instead we'll see if we can figure out that 2 bar @!#$. Glad you got it working again....i guess i should thank jenna to for doing all the work for me. LOL... THANKS JENNA
and one for good measure:
VERRRRRYYYY NICE!!!!! I EXCITTTTEEEE!!!! WILL YOU BE MY BOYFRIEND!!!!!!
BoostedEcos wrote:did you just put a stock trans in or did you get your insert??
i do believe the only thing stock and skunk have in common is they both start with S.
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Brad - LMAO!!! I seriously laughed for a good minute after reading this.
As promised more pics...
Fetter - I've thought about it, but like I said, it took 70k of me beating the ever living crap out of it, if I get half of that I'll be just fine. A trans every 2 years is managable and acceptable for me.
Anthony - I'm pretty sure this has been a time bomb just waiting to explode for some time. Remember that "strange" noise from the first time you had ever been in my car? I think that was the orginal sign that something wasn't quite right.
I'm thinking what happened is when I replaced the trans a few years back and put the diff w/ insert outta my factory trans I didn't align the cases properly or didn't put the bearing in correctly that sits on the 1-2 gear set and eventually it was going to fail. It just so happened it wasn't completely catastrophic and I could still drive it home and a couple "joy" rides around the country side.
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man u did a number on the diff,i'm goint to make sure i have a spare trans just in case that happens.
z yaaaa wrote:BoostedEcos wrote:did you just put a stock trans in or did you get your insert??
i do believe the only thing stock and skunk have in common is they both start with S.
they both end in a K too. hey curt, haven't talked to ya in a while now. glad your car is running again
what are you doing for a front bumper??
Been there with a Getrag already. I keep a spare diff around just in case. Only good thing about the Getrag is that the diff is easy to replace.
Damn I cant get over those pics of the damge. That is crazy. So does this mean you might make it to Brads on the 27th?
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