You take abrand new,well less than ten half azz shots on it transmission. Add In little work on pan gasket leak. Screw up the shift cable adjustment. T
Next you go to track.Do a heavier than most would burn out. Stage car with it between lo and hi and attempt to leave a 5500. If not enough damage.Fix adjustment and go try again. When done it will be friedThis message has been edited. Last edited by: wideopen231,
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June 07, 2020, 11:59 AM
Mitch H
Dang it! Sorry about your luck....
Breaking stuff is never fun, or cheap.
June 07, 2020, 12:03 PM
Canted Valve
^^^^ Ditto. But it is the nature of the beast.
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June 07, 2020, 12:28 PM
Wooley
Been there, done that, got the tee shirt.
June 07, 2020, 12:41 PM
fasterat
Built new engine long ago. Good parts. Loaded up 4 Saturday in a row and hauled to track. Rained out all 4 times, never unloaded car. Week number 5, get to track, beautiful day. Scattered new engine on trans brake release. TADA!
June 07, 2020, 03:35 PM
wideopen231
Yea. Not *****ing.Hell I built I broke it,its all on me. SHyt happens. What you going to do? Rebuild and try not to do stupid crap again.
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June 07, 2020, 04:03 PM
Alaskaracer
That sucks dude......
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June 07, 2020, 06:55 PM
wideopen231
figure thats about 150 in parts and 100 expences per burn out. Oh well have spent more LMAO The laughing might be the strawberry lemonade with some 140 NC mountain Dew.
Not total wipe out just some clutches and low gear band,the later kind of sucks. Hell if it was easy I wouldn't want to be involved.
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June 07, 2020, 10:37 PM
Footloose
Sorry to hear this. We all human If it had left in high gear would it had smoked it?
June 07, 2020, 10:50 PM
wideopen231
Should not have.Its equpiued with high.low valve body and designed to be able to leave in high.All good stuff except the light bulb in the seat. Part adjustment (crew chief ) and part light bulb and maybe little manufacture of shifter. But hell I am all three.
Worst things have happened and I have scrap parts to prove it. Try kicking 2 rods at 1000' in a 5 run TFX block,cost 6000.00.SO about 1200 per pass. Good news it still ran 5.90 at 231. Got to look for the good if you can.
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June 08, 2020, 08:03 AM
Big Steve
Knowing how much you like working on your car, now you have something to work on haha. Good thing is a band, possibly some clutches is not a bunch of money. It it just burnt the outside of the drum that is easily fixed on a lathe with some 80 grit emory cloth
June 08, 2020, 06:06 PM
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strawberry lemonade with some 140 NC mountain Dew.
Now that sounds good...... Just so happens I have both in stock. Mtn dew is in the freezer and the strawberry lemonade in in the fridge. I'll report back.......
June 08, 2020, 06:09 PM
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Originally posted by wideopen231: Should not have.Its equpiued with high.low valve body and designed to be able to leave in high.All good stuff except the light bulb in the seat. Part adjustment (crew chief ) and part light bulb and maybe little manufacture of shifter. But hell I am all three.
Air line comes off the pod at about 7-800 feet....Yeah, that was a mess.
Worst things have happened and I have scrap parts to prove it. Try kicking 2 rods at 1000' in a 5 run TFX block,cost 6000.00.SO about 1200 per pass. Good news it still ran 5.90 at 231. Got to look for the good if you can.
June 10, 2020, 07:51 PM
wideopen231
So good news,good news and big question.
Found out what was hurt,Not the low gear band or high gear clutches. Fried and I mean welded the reverse clutches.
Now for the question. WTH caused it? What did I f---k up. Something with build? Light bulb short circuit in the seat?
Low gear band looks like what it is brand new as do high gear clutches.
Car has high/low valve body and pro brake.I did forget pro brake thing on stand LOL. Car backed up fins on last run. CAr would not leave line both runs. Figured shifter was between low and high first shot. Second shot it sounded like running thru clutch but not moving.
Ideas?
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June 10, 2020, 07:53 PM
wideopen231
quote:
Originally posted by Big Steve: Knowing how much you like working on your car, now you have something to work on haha. Good thing is a band, possibly some clutches is not a bunch of money. It it just burnt the outside of the drum that is easily fixed on a lathe with some 80 grit emory cloth
Like it less after day of working in 90 degree 80% humidity. Thats why took me cpl days to get around to pulling.Well that and after the strawberry lemon aide mix last night I figured working on car bad idea. LMAO.
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June 10, 2020, 08:55 PM
Hutch
Transbrake got applied during the run. Do you have a system in place to prevent that?
yes box has a lock out. Unless I screwed up and reset it. Will have to check it.
While it will piss me at me and that can get BAD. It would make me feel better about transmission build.
I could have screwed it up between runs.Does not totally explain what was going on first run.Might be two separate things like cable and then transbrake 2nd run.
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June 11, 2020, 06:33 PM
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Originally posted by Big Steve: Knowing how much you like working on your car, now you have something to work on haha. Good thing is a band, possibly some clutches is not a bunch of money. It it just burnt the outside of the drum that is easily fixed on a lathe with some 80 grit emory cloth
Drum still needs to be flat, a 2 inch wide piece of glass or aluminium with paper wrapped around it with the drum in said lathe will remove the high spots from the heat and make a nice flat finish on the drum. The high spots swell from the heat, and you just need to work them down flat nice and slow, then she is purty.
June 12, 2020, 09:41 PM
wideopen231
would post pics but computer issues.Had power surge kill old one and one I am one is PIA with windows 10 crap.
When I sat welded the clutches I mean welded them together. Lucky did not hurt sun gear other than little heat where it wiped thru clutch teeth.. When I f---up I do nit at full speed.LMAO
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June 13, 2020, 07:25 PM
wideopen231
Seems hutch is right. Crew chief screwed up sitting on box,driver screwed up and hit button and owner is cussing us both. Man I am wearing myself out.LMAO
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If it had left in high gear would it had smoked it?