I did a bad, bad thing.......

[cathynkeith]

Tore the rear end out today, broke the posi unit, may have too much power, after tooling around town doing a few burnouts, headed out to visit friends, hit the city limit sign and let her rip, first time wide open, ran about 5500 rpm and clank, vibration and pulled over, smoke off rearend housing, bad, bad noise when you back off the throttle, called the guy who built it and he sent a wrecker.
Something must have failed, these small tires let go way before the rear end feels the stress, I have yet to hit the rev limiter 6k mostly been tooling around and gassing it from 2k - 5k leaving black marks.

Oh well, this is the world of hot rods

[ezernut9mm]

drive it like a hot rod, fix it like a hot rod. have you thought about a 9.75 unit out of one of the heaver f series? i know the last gen lightnings used the 9.75 and i haven't heard too much about them failing even with kb'd or turbo'd trucks making 500+hp. just a thought.

[cathynkeith]

builder thinks its a pinion bearing, maybe pre loaded too much since it failed the first time at highway speed.

[cathynkeith]

this it the locker, it has yukon 4.11 gears


http://www.ringpinion.com/ProductDetail ... rodID=2087

[ezernut9mm]

so maybe not a total loss? or does all the shavings gettin in the diff fluid trash the locker?

[cathynkeith]

so maybe not a total loss? or does all the shavings gettin in the diff fluid trash the locker?

We will not pull it apart until monday to see the damage, its his nickle.

[ezernut9mm]

that's a plus. hope it all works out alright.

[71 LONG BED]

Yeah but you were having fun, right?
I think the guy will stand behind his work.

[cathynkeith]

ok, not bad at all, just the front pinion bearing, wiped it out cooked in the rece. New one installed, cleaned out case, refilled and we are off again.

Did I tell ya this thing has a little power?

oooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh boy hang on!

[RebelRider]

How 'bout some burnout video!

[cathynkeith]

got her back wendsday but have been working on wiring, got all lights and horn working. Drove a little this afternoon. have appoitment at muffler shop to install cut out tomorrow then have to be in dallas for the weekend ata tourney.....so maybe next week.

[tazzman68]

[Heavenlyfire]

I showed a buddy of mine at work the pic of your engine, (he is one of these kids with the high performance compact cars)

He left a drool stain on the desk

[cathynkeith]

Bite Me!

[jbanks]

If I come up to Longview sometime could I see it in person?