Over revving issue

[Halon]

Brian, you ever worked in a tranny much before? The most I've done is replace a couple shift forks. It'd be nice to have someone stop by sometime who knows a little more about what they're looking at inside it, and maybe help see if everything is ok.

[TalonFiero]

Damn, what a shitty way to break an axle.

Looks like you found most of your problems Brandon. Are you going to try something other than a stocker HG this time?

[Halon]

Nope, I've got another OEM Composite one ready to go in. I'm hoping with the L19's, it'll hold better this time. If not, well then time to finally consider upgrading past the OEM composite one. I've stuck with this HG the whole time because it's usually never failed me. This is the one time, and not even sure if it was the HG's fault.

[mike55112]

Hope it all goes smooth for you, Im going to be swapping in some L19's as well within the next couple weeks.

[iceminion]

Hope you didn't blow your viscous coupling with all that slipping your car had to do to make some forward movement.

[Halon]

How do you check that? I've never dived much into the drivetrain internals, so I really am not all that sure what is normal and what's not.

[Halon]

Tranny is out.

That axle was definitely busted, and the piece is still inside the tranny. I was curious how 'stuck' it was so I poked it with my finger and it slid in 1/2" extremely easily. So I'm assuming it'll come out fairly easily also. Maybe if I can find a big magnet, I can suck it right on out? I think I'm going to pick up a replacement from Checker/O'Reilly right up the street from me. They want $49, and comes with a lifetime warrantee, can't complain about that.

So tranny is out. Where that axle went in, there is grease everywhere, but the tranny seems to be fine. I didn't see any big dings or cracks in the case anywhere. TOB seemed to still be in great condition.

Got the clutch off. All the PP mounting bolts were still nice and tight. It still looks to be in excellent condition, especially considering the abuse it saw at the track on Saturday. Flywheel still looked good. Pulled out the torque wrench and set it for 100lbs/ft, and none of the bolts moved one bit. So they are all still on there nice and tight. The clunking I heard on the way home I'm guessing was just the busted axle moving around.

I removed all the ARP studs, and the old headgasket. Went and grabbed a small taliban razor and started cleaning off the top of the block. I got about 1/4 of the way done scraping the block, and decided to call it a night.

Tomorrow the head is going to my uncle. I also plan to finish scraping the top of the block off, then dropping the oil pan and removing the rods/pistons, and checking the rod bearings. That's my goal for tomorrow.

Here's some pics. Last pic is of one of my front brake rotors. These little babies aren't liking slowing down after those 130+mph passes...

[Super Bleeder!!]

cant you just pull out the opposite axle and poke an extension through to push out the broken axle?

[Halon]

I tried that. I looked through the hole, and thought it looked like the end of the other axle in there, and tried poking it with a screw driver. But it didn't budge. so I thought maybe it was something else and didn't try anymore.

Maybe I will go try again, but with a hammer this time :)

[Halon]

I just went and checked that again. There is some sort of round bar that is in between the axles inside the tranny. I can only get a tiny screwdriver in there that can kinda get around that rod. The axle slides out just a hair, but won't slide out any more than that. I think I'll have to try and get it out once I take the whole thing apart.