joat mon posted:

Input shaft gear failure that also wrecked the countershaft on a ZF 5-speed mated to a Ford 460

frozenphil posted:

Really? You have no idea how a transmission that dies behind the torque of a stock 302 died behind a 460? Those input shafts are notorious. Bob Cosby went through a couple dozen during his run for the championship in NMRA Factory Stock with his '99 Cobra making all of 350hp.

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Who's broke their stock input shaft launching on slicks? Who hasn't
12-27-2006, 10:29 AM
Never busted one on launch. However, in 2001, I broke five (5) T45 input shafts on BFG DRs. Three of them on the 3/4 shift. 2 of them on the 2/3 shift.

I sent the broken input shafts to TTC (the folks that make Tremec Trannies), and they summized that I was doing the damage to the input shafts on launch, and they were then snapping on the shifts into the higher gears.
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Bob Cosby, USN (Retired)

99 Cobra
2005 Harley FXDWG Dyna Wide Glide

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2.12a) PERMITTED MANUAL TRANSMISSIONS:
Tremec T5, Tremec T45, Tremec T56, Tremec TR3550, Tremec TR3650, Tremec TKO, Tremec TKO-500, TKO-600, & Tremec TKOII.

ab0z posted:

Well a locomotive needs lots of torque and amazing reliability. I bet that 4000hp locomotive engine makes a lot more than 4000 ft-lb of torque.

meltie posted:

I don't wash my car when it's misbehaved.

Doctor Zero posted:

You have the cause and effect reversed. Clean cars run better. You're just getting it stuck in a vicious cycle.

jammyozzy posted:

You're doing that the wrong way around, clean it and it'll run better, neglect it and it'll break just to spite you. As soon as I washed my car it stopped pissing coolant and oil, then a bird shat on it, I haven't bothered cleaning it and it's started being difficult again.

meltie posted:

Woah, weird. One response and i'd laugh it off. Two and I guess it must be serious. I guess carrots work better than sticks?

meltie posted:

I've fixed two of the three main issues now, when i've fixed everything and it's being a good car again it will be rewarded with a detailing. I'm also torturing myself with blown speakers, I won't replace those until the rest of the car's behaving too...

Slung Blade posted:

14 INCH DICK TURBO posted:

FatCow posted:

If there was a way to "win" AI finding the backstory for that would do it.

Petekill posted:

I may be blind, but can someone point out to me where the problem is?

c355n4 posted:

Is that an acorn?!

EightBit posted:

The tip doesn't look too bad, just got some dirt on it. Hit it with some wd40 and get that crap off of it and it should be good. Now, if the rotor was that dirty, maybe the gasket around the cap was bad?

Also, the spark plugs in that thing must have hair-thin electrodes that are more carbon than steel.

InitialDave posted:

Does anyone else get a slight feeling when they find a random wheelnut/bolt lying in the road?

Looks like you've got yourself a Thor with the Motronic system there. Just bear in mind if it's a 4.0, you probably don't get the cross-bolted mains, I think only the factory 4.6s get those.

Any particular reason for doing it? I've always believed that the only reason the Rover holds sway in the UK is availability and nostalgia, the US has so many V8s that will make more power cheaper and more reliably.

InitialDave posted:

I wasn't sure. You definitely get the full-width bearing blocks, the different head bolt arrangement and so on, but I seem to have this thing in my head about the 4.0 not getting the crossbolting.

Not that it's hard to check. Bolt heads on the side of the block? There you go!

If Motronic can give a yes/no, I'd be interested in a definite answer.

Raluek posted:

What gets me is that he was storing a tank without the heavy caps over the valves that keep this from happening. Every time I think about moving a tank I imagine how easy it would be to knock the valve into something or drop the tank onto the valve or something. Gives me the willies. Don't welding instructors always drill that into you? Always use the cap!

JD Brickmeister posted:

In 1990-91 I had an '86 Chevette with about 60k, pulled out of a rest-stop on the interstate and had the thing floored and was frustrated that for some reason I couldn't get past about 65 or so. Took me awhile to realize I hadn't shifted to 4th(), and thus had been well over the redline for at least 30 seconds.

No damage, amazingly enough.

XK posted:

First she said the truck cut her off, now she says the brakes on an effectively brand new Porsche failed and did nothing when she pressed them. I'm going to say yes, Lindsay Lohan qualifies.

kastein posted:

Do I spy water mixed in with that lube?

Savington posted:

I am not pedantic enough to torque most bolts, but flywheel bolts are on the "torque it" list.

Das Volk posted:

Shut up you Soviets!

Ferremit posted:

Seriously- how the gently caress do you crack a 42" thick reinforced concrete containment building?

Collateral Damage posted:

On the topic of nuclear reactors, Sweden's first experimental nuclear reactor R1 was built in the basement of the royal institute of technology, smack in the middle of our capital, in a time when nuclear research basically amounted to "let's smack these two things together and see what happens ".

dietcokefiend posted:

What the hell happened to that thing? Did that transfer case /transmission eat a loving extension cord? What is all that copper wire from?

PainterofCrap posted:

First guess is: electromagnetic valve timing module.

or: magneto? Is that a small engine?

Slavvy posted:

Looks to me like an electrically controlled transfer case, the copper wire is from the magnetic sleeve that rams the hi/lo selector forward.

Slavvy posted:

IV8 can you please explain to me exactly what truck ramps are meant to do? How does crashing the truck into a big mound of whatever help anything?

We don't have them here (or really, really big trucks for that matter) so I don't really get the circumstances that they're supposed to be useful in. Are they just dotted around everywhere because brake failures on trucks are really common? Or are they put in certain places because brakes fail more often there? Or something...?

American roads are weird.

Slavvy posted:

I'm in new Zealand, we have an upper weight limit on our trucks that was only lifted recently. There are no such ramps in the north island, where I live, as far as I've seen. There may be some in the south island but I'm not aware of it. The overwhelming majority of very long straight sloped roads are motorways which are totally enclosed; there aren't many (or any) mountain roads I can think of that trucks actually use because most mountains are usually circumvented.

This is really interesting and I genuinely had no idea such things existed until reading this forum!

kastein posted:

He posted more pics

InitialDave posted:

Right. If you turn on the lights, the foglights will be on.
I've fixed it now, but Jesus, who does that?

kastein posted:

Gee, wonder why the transmission wouldn't go into gear?

PS: transmissions run better on ATF than on water, especially when it's frozen.

(I am pretty sure that's a 93.5-98 jeep grand cherokee with a 4.0L engine, but could be wrong.)

tater_salad posted:

I can't even fathom what allowed that huge rear end piece of metal to be bent like a banana.

kastein posted:

Jesus christ. 5.5M foot pounds is literally half a mile-ton of torque.

Darchangel posted:

I'd be terrified to ride a bike that the SPOKES are stronger than the forks on.

ShittyPostmakerPro posted:

Can we not just look up the engine model and see if it's interference or not? What engine was it? The '97 A6 (C4 chassis) came with 8 gasoline and 3 diesel engines.