hay all

My gearbox has been finished and recod. Just gotta get the mechanic to fit it. but the gearbox reconditioner found the problem he said hes never seen this before. The axle gear itself broke inhalf. i got pic of the gear itself. Aswell he said the splines are abit worn to.

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jesus...

Must have been a bad casting?

Perhaps from burnouts?

Most likely not a proper casting, it may be a sintered part or machined from solid.

Cracking like that would most likely be caused by an overstress condition.
Can you do a nice Macro close up of the break faces.

Gerry

Well if your going to break it, do it properly lol

Good to see you got it fixed mate. Now no more burnouts at the drags :naughty:

Yeah ill take a close up pic for ya. But yeah ive definatly wont be doing anymore burnouts all togethor now. But the box looks like new now. He said the gearbox is very similar to a honda box.

kurt what tyres do u have? they must be damn grippy.....

also, how many kms on your car?

kurt what tyres do u have? they must be damn grippy.....

also, how many kms on your car?

Hay i have pirelli tyres they were 205 standards but they were really grippy. it has 220km on it. He said the gearbox was in pritty good nic still. Id say my engine is to not using a drop of oil either.

Shock loading will do that . . . . . . Naughty Kurt!!!!

At least you didn't kill the clutch as I had predicted!!

Shock loading will do that . . . . . . Naughty Kurt!!!!

At least you didn't kill the clutch as I had predicted!!


Thank god i didnt lol. There not cheap

Heh, I was hoping you HAD killed the clutch. I'd rather change a clutch then be facing a gearbox rebuild any day of the week.

Hey Kurt, what did you get done? Just change the shatterd gear or did you get the whole gearbox reconditioned with new bearings, syncros etc.

good to hear its all fixed

Heh, I was hoping you HAD killed the clutch. I'd rather change a clutch then be facing a gearbox rebuild any day of the week.

Hey Kurt, what did you get done? Just change the shatterd gear or did you get the whole gearbox reconditioned with new bearings, syncros etc.

Yeah true i probably would of rathered the clutch cause this has cost me my life savings lol. Yeah got the whole box done he did bearings syncros and a couple other things

Burnouts & flat shifting. Mmm, recipe for win.

how come this box broke.. but there are heaps of ppl running massive power through them elsewhere trouble free?

tzaboy for example.. his car has done well over 100,000kms... with brass button clutch doing track days, drag racing all with big HP and no gearbox issues..

how come this box broke.. but there are heaps of ppl running massive power through them elsewhere trouble free?

Cos from what i have read and seen this bloke thrashes the hell out of it, over 6500rpm gear changes etc

Cos from what i have read and seen this bloke thrashes the hell out of it, over 6500rpm gear changes etc

still dont reckon that should break a box on near stock power... seen alot worse done to them.. guess it does break them though ey

Nothing is unbreakable . . . . some people are better than others at finding the weakest link. lol

how come this box broke.. but there are heaps of ppl running massive power through them elsewhere trouble free?

tzaboy for example.. his car has done well over 100,000kms... with brass button clutch doing track days, drag racing all with big HP and no gearbox issues..

thats because tzaboy has a LSD, Kurt doesn't and that what he has broken the planetary gear in the diff

weakest link in GB if you upgrade clutch, but you only break them if you are dumping the clutch with big wheels

thats because tzaboy has a LSD, Kurt doesn't and that what he has broken the planetary gear in the diff

weakest link in GB if you upgrade clutch, but you only break them if you are dumping the clutch with big wheels

ahhh interesting... cheers for the info