Trannys suck

[Pushit2.0]

Welded center diff is not for a street car. Also I do not see how the Shep welded diff would "feel" any different, if its welded it will provide a 50/50 split no matter how good or bad its welded.

~john

[Andrew7dg]

Taking the tranny apart is pretty straight forward, if you are afraid you might forget where something goes or how it looks then take pictures as you go along for reference, and also label your parts with a good desciption of location or orientation. The only thing I was confused about reassembly was setting the preload shims and how to check them.

Thats why I just had Shep give me a stage 3; 4 Spider, Chromoly forks, etc.


If you do take pictures, posted them. I have been wanting to rebuild my tranny for a while now. Maybe this would be motivation. :woohoo1:

[turbotalon1g]

Welded center diff is not for a street car. Also I do not see how the Shep welded diff would "feel" any different, if its welded it will provide a 50/50 split no matter how good or bad its welded.

~john

Well with the shep one, I had a hard time telling if it was welded, couldn't tell until 2 turns of the wheel, your one you could tell just trying to roll down the driveway and turning the wheel maybe 1/2 a turn.

[MustGoFaster]

Well with the shep one, I had a hard time telling if it was welded, couldn't tell until 2 turns of the wheel, your one you could tell just trying to roll down the driveway and turning the wheel maybe 1/2 a turn.

Did you have different tires on the car? Change anything else? Welded is welded, no rotation allowed.

[turbotalon1g]

Nope nothing different.
Nick was with me too and he could tell it was welded, then I explained to him the differences between the two, Sam agreed with me in the way it felt.

[kittay]

Lol.. I got the tranny out of the black cherry all torn apart and the 2 spare trannys all torn down.. It was so surprising on how simple it was!

I really don't think I'll do welded center dif, just because of DDing it and the 255 wides.

I'll try and get some pics. But doubt I'll be getting any motivation until I get new gears/ syncros/ sliders/ bearings/ center dif

[JET]

Aaron, it sounds like the Shep one is a 4 gear, not welded. Like they said, welded is welded. I have a 4 gear in my car from Shep.

I would get a junk yard tranny so you can at least get the 3-5 gears. How can ALL of the gears be bad in all 3 trannies? That just doesn't seem right. Be sure to check Shep out for trannies too. He also usually has a decent amount of used parts on hand too.

[kittay]

Some of the gears looked OKish, but nothing I would trust, esp when building a tranny.. Might as well do it right.

But the sliders had started to round the teeth of the gears.