No more phantom grips for me.....

[Damkid]

you should be able to get that repaired for use again, anyone worth their beans should be able to tig that up good as new.

I thought about tig welding a patch over it, but i have yet another spare KL trans that the internals are bad, so i'll probably just switch the guts over to the next case and not bother patching this one

The wear on the diff pin looks like galling from too many one-wheel wonders

Did the rollpin fail?

Yup, you guessed right :lol: sheared the roll pin and worked its way out of the diff lol

[PhoenixSHO]

In the SHO world the PG is a garanteed MTX explosion. Its a huge NO-NO.

Our only options are the quaife (discontinued) or now the wavetrac which is a quaife but better.

[Clay]

This was a big problem on mini vans in the early 90s, when they switched from a diff with gear oil in a seperate chamber to being lubricated with the trans oil. If you spin one wheel a lot (especially when on ice) the ATF gets flung off. Gear oil was better at sticking. Or so I have been told.

[91_festy_Gl]

JB weld works wonders on aluminum casings like that. I had to patch my diff housing on my tranny.

[eurotiva]

Could have been way worse. My diff pin failed and exploded the trans.

[Damkid]

Could have been way worse. My diff pin failed and exploded the trans.

I agree lol i'm glad i could salvage most of the internals

[Darlo]

Will the turbo fit ?

More importantly.....Will it Blend?

[Damkid]

:roll::roll: :sex:

[skeeters_keeper]

Am I missing something or is this not actually the PGs fault? If you were doing one-wheel-wonders than clearly it wasn't helping as much as it should have, but other than not really locking up the diff did it fail at all?

Seems to me like if the pin was welded in (as I have heard recommended many times) it wouldn't have worked its way out and put that nice grove in your case... what am I missing?

[Rocketman]

Could have been way worse. My diff pin failed and exploded the trans.

Same. It was a mess. Previous owner apparently beat the piss out of the trans. It blew shortly after I got the car. 7 different holes punched in the case



Skeeters- if the PG was preventing one-wheel wonders it would not have galled up the diff pin & caused the rollpin retainer to shear in the first place. Effectively the diff was still open, at least that's my take on it - other opinions may vary.

If the pinion shaft was welded to the diff housing, galling can still occur. The diff will still fail, probably more catastrophically, the spider gears will have time to bounce around on the shaft before it breaks altogether. Got to look at the root cause of the issue

[Damkid]

Hey Nate, i did actually weld the diff pin as well :lol: i had the upgraded springs in there too adding to the pressure on the diff pin

[skeeters_keeper]

hmm, ok. I've got a PG to go in my G25 mated to a BP... I've heard some say good things, some say bad things. Figured as long as I wasn't beating the crap out of it it'd be a good thing... but maybe not. I wish we had an easier way to put a real LSD in our trannys!

[Damkid]

^^We do, it's called Mfactory :lol: although the price isn't exactly wallet friendly :lol:

When i had my B6T, i had a phantom grip in there as well BUT with the regular spring and i had no issues with it at all, the upgraded springs are a LOT tougher and they are the ones that caused the above damage

So if i had to give any advice on phantom grips, run them with the regular springs only, not the upgraded ones

[NicholasJackson]

The factory lsd is CRAZY expensive (relatively). Pretty rare too. Ive seen one for 2000 dollars.

[Rocketman]

The factory lsd is CRAZY expensive (relatively). Pretty rare too. Ive seen one for 2000 dollars.

He's talking about the MFactory LSD. Bunch of guys on ClubProtege got a group buy kickin with them and they decided to produce them as mainstream item.

http://www.teammfactory.com/helical-lsd

$700 is great considering the quality of the unit & the other "options" available