Munched transaxle from Drag Day
 

Well I pulled the engine and transaxle yesterday and found all the broken stuff. I had a failure on both sides of the diff. The Left inner CV exploded and the Right output shaft sheared at the CV flange.
As Jake would say,,,,,,,SWEET.

It sounds like it's time for the 5-speed. :cool:

how did you brake it? i did the same thing to a output shaft by keeping my foot in it with really bad wheelhop.

I launched it at the drag strip,,,,,, well I tried to launch it.
The 5 speed will have to wait till winter, I need to get it back together for mid Aprill so I can go to Bug-A-Pulozza.

Bummer Dave.... Sorry to hear about that... Hope you get it back on the road soon...

wow man, thast really sucks...hope things work out better for you :rolleyes:

Well I spent all day Tuesday at Jakes, took up 2 trans axles 1 that sould have had a 3.88 R&P and a .88 4th and 1 that was unknown. broke both of them down and found 4.12 R&P and .88 4th in boh.(same gears I had). Zen had bought a super dif and HD side cover to do a 3.88/.88 4th trans for the Ghia. I was going to build it and use it untill winter. Come to find out that that would not help his Ghia at all so I will buy the Dif and side cover and we scrounged up a 3.88/.88 4th combo and I built the dif ( after having to put it on a lathe and cut one of the thrust surfaces,,,,,(BugPack part)). Then the side cover had to be machined to the proper bore for the flange seal. Nothing like building up something 4-5 time more than you need to. But I think I have a good HD transaxle now. :agree:

Serviced ready to install. :agree:

That's so purdy! :cool:

If you'd like, I can stress test it in the bus for you... I've been wanting to get some top fuel take off pics :D .

It's going in on Mon. if not sooner. I got to get it ready to go to Bug-A-Paluza. I will have to get my own smokey burnout pix.

Sweet Dave...glad to see things are working out for you :D

Sweeeeet!!!

Both the carnage and new tranny pics :)

Keep this one alive longer man!!!

Pillow,,,,,, nice to see (read) you here. It has been a while. I hope to keep this one in place long enough to get time to fab-up the 901 swap. :agree: