[Shotimes] Reinforced Diffs? Couple of questions

[Bruce Malachuk]

I was thinking about knocking apart my brother's 349k diff just to take some
pictures of the insides. I need to drill it for quaife install parts anyway.
I was amazed at the level of NO-wear in his 349k original tranny. 1 and 2
blocking rings were worn prett good on the teeth, but other than that
everything was near flawless. The PO drove the car all highway, changed the
tranny fluid 5 times 3 times for clutches, and 2 times for ripped CV boots.
I guess that with that it was "enough" tranny fluid changes to keep the
tranny happy.


Bruce J Malachuk

*	94 Opal Frost MTX 
*	93 Emerald Green MTX - SOLD 
*	93 Black ATX - New Parts CAR 
*	95 Silver Frost ATX SE - SLO -Buyer waiting 
*	96 TR - Cam Failed parts car :-(


-----Original Message-----
From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Mark Nunnally
Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2005 7:55 PM
To: shotimes@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Reinforced Diffs? Couple of questions

> I don't want to turn this into a Quaife Debate. But I've seen atleast 
> two ways to do this as of late. The band around to contain the pins.
> Seems simple and effective.

This is like putting a full body suit on a AMA bike racer...they hit the
wall and splat.  But the suit keeps all the pieces in :)

Won't do a darn thing for the gears wallowing out the pinion shafts (or from
keeping the crap flying around with the locating pins break)

>The C Clip version that I run was a total  bitch and not worth talking 
>about because I wont do it again.

The only real fix is putting in quaife :)

That being said, I've never had a stock diff problem in any SHO I've had (92
is 220k+ now, lots of drag passes and track days).  I think most happen due
to abuse, and lack of fluid changes/low fluid and who knows what kinda
service history life (3rd and 4th owners these days!)

mark
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