So I blew up my rear differential this weekend

870 Views 6 Replies 7 Participants Last post by Shin RS, May 15, 2002

STiShawn

Discussion Starter · Mar 26, 2002

Thats a bad sound when you start shearing teeth from your spider gears, even worse feeling as it locks up mid corner at a SOLO....we replaced the offending unit and all is well. I will post some pictures when I can...nasty mess inside.

Now, why did it break?

Its an open diff
I dog leg frequently in tight corners
I have stickey tires

Is it from the shock load of the tire landing after dog legging?

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10th Warrior

· #2 · Mar 26, 2002

So I blew up my rear differential this weekend

and how

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I_H8_1.8

· #3 · Apr 4, 2002

I'd like to see those pics!

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subarumantoo

· #4 · Apr 30, 2002

I hope you replaced it with a viscous unit!

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COwannago

· #5 · May 3, 2002

Wow that sucks. Where you using stock differential fluid? Just wonderin.

Nick C.

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meebs

· #6 · May 5, 2002

any pics yet?

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Shin RS

· #7 · May 15, 2002

Yikes! that sucks, kinda makes me worry about my viscous unit on my car, before, when I just had KYB-AGX and eibach springs, my friends said that I was lifting the rear tire on tight fast sections at auto-x, that can't be a good thing (for the car atleast).

Good luck in getting a replacement... I too would like to see the pictures of this...

One of my friends blew his gears and his rear diff, I only got to see the remains of the gear box, but missed out on the diff...

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