broken 8 3/4 help !

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Thu Jan 03, 08 7:37 pm

Dave wrote:NOS never hurt a car ever did it.

Love it if we could prove you wrong Dave , but it does take it's toll that gas.

Pete · Post by **Pete** » Thu Jan 03, 08 7:39 pm

I didn't think it was on the bottle when it went kablooie....

Cannonball · Post by **Cannonball** » Thu Jan 03, 08 7:50 pm

at least we know why it was only burnin one wheel at the nats, and your box was that bollaxed it sounded like you were slippin all the time
its your race car, put a spool in it

andyrob · Post by **andyrob** » Thu Jan 03, 08 8:25 pm

yes pete it getting lots of gas when it went but with a diff like that & slipping box, Im quite pleased I did a 11.5 at only about 112 i think

just bought moser shafts but not yet fitted
duncan is this what you mean buy a spool:
http://store.summitracing.com/partdetai ... toview=sku
but thats for a 30 spline & I think mines only about 22- will check tomorrow

Pete · Post by **Pete** » Thu Jan 03, 08 8:53 pm

Good call on the Mosers, Andy. Getting the banjo braced may be a good idea whist you are at it. Ladder bars put a lot of torsional strain on the tinwork.

andyrob · Post by **andyrob** » Thu Jan 03, 08 9:05 pm

whats the banjo pete ? apart from a county-honk type of musical instrument

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Thu Jan 03, 08 9:16 pm

Andy, Its the diff carrier (correct me if I'm wrong) called a banjo presumably because it looks like the circular skin on the banjo instrument you just mentioned....

Dave-R · Post by **Dave-R** » Thu Jan 03, 08 9:29 pm

andyrob wrote:whats the banjo pete ? apart from a county-honk type of musical instrument

It's that bit you just had cleaned and powder coated.

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Fri Jan 04, 08 11:53 am

I have a Strange spool in stock but i'm sure thats 30 spline also

andyrob · Post by **andyrob** » Fri Jan 04, 08 4:24 pm

cheers wil but have just bought the spool that blue posted about earlier in this thread

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Sat Jan 05, 08 1:08 pm

Oh bloody hell Andy, I feel well embarrased now, It was working all OK the last ime it raced! HONEST! That was the 10.9 with and 12.1 without. Box and diff allseemed OK.

BUT that thing is gonna fly soon. Best of luck mate, at least all the gremlins should be gone for the new season.

Looks like I may be at my first Nats this year too, so if ya need a push or two... The 3 Browns will bw there to help in anyway. And 1 of em is now a fully qualified mechanic!! How bout that!! Just what I always needed.

andyrob · Post by **andyrob** » Sat Jan 05, 08 4:46 pm

dont worry jeff, its just one of thoose things, blue lined me up a spool for £60, so not an expensive fix
dont think the car will any faster just will be more realiable hopfully, I think you were just lucky

If any thing falls off or breaks now there any only one person to blame

I go & take some more up to date photos

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Sat Jan 05, 08 8:18 pm

Hi Andy.

Two more small problems in the diff region?

Race gears are soft, street gears are hard, you may get some problems if you are making big power and break some more teeth, ie ring and pinion?

Street axle shafts need to be changed also, for Yukon or better, Strange 'eh???

Best of luck at the track, Baccy.

andyrob · Post by **andyrob** » Sun Jan 06, 08 11:02 am

baccy,
moser shafts ready to go in

the originals were well worn

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Sun Jan 06, 08 5:09 pm

Hi Andy,

Did I also tell you what else can happen when you have a driveline failure?

Sprag failure in the transmission!, which allows the clutch drum to spin at anything up to 18000rpm. Guess what happens then? Bang!!! as the drum explodes.

Would always recommend a trans sheild, just in case!!!

Baccy.