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Hey..........Lets play "what REALLY happened?!"
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Nige
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I'll take "What broke..?" for $1000 please Alex ...........
thepumpguysc
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What is>Jammin gears like a truck driver, Alex..
Junkyard
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I’m gonna say spinning in slippery crap and then immediately finding good traction thus creating shock load. In the heavy haul world I’ve seen shock load from missing gears do massive damage too.
Ring gear bolts and holes look ok for the most part so I’m guessing they stayed tight until it came uncorked.
Ring gear bolts and holes look ok for the most part so I’m guessing they stayed tight until it came uncorked.
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Shimmy1
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Brakes were froze and the driver kept popping the clutch until things let go?
DMiller
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I'm a leanin on the Shock Load side myself, unless he was doing 80 and a ring bolt just happened to fall into the gearing. ZOWIE!! What series Spicer is it? and WTF is it out of?
crane operator
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I pulled a third member out two years ago, and 1/2 the bolts were laying in the bottom of the housing, so I'm going with broken or walked loose bolts holding the gear to the carrier, and one of the bolts hung up in the gear breaking the tooth.
He had to hit it pretty hard to break the gear though.
And he might just drive like I do- theres always that possibility.
He had to hit it pretty hard to break the gear though.
And he might just drive like I do- theres always that possibility.
crane operator
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While we're talking about abuse, I heard somewhere of someone using their creeper as a cart for rolling third members out from underneath trucks, anyone else heard that rumor?
GregsHD
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Improperly torqued ring gear bolts?looking at the sealant it may have not been in service very long before failure?
I forgot to say, This is not a job I personally am doing. The story I got from the guy that removed it was the truck was stuck and they used another truck to attempt to pull it free. The ring gear is NOT riveted, its bolted. This truck was bought used by the customer and supposedly this diff only has around 25000 miles since replaced. The damage is so bad that it is difficult to determine a cause. I was asked what could cause this...……….which is why we are playing...………."What REALLY happened!?" I'm liking everything I am seeing so far...………..your guess is as good as mine at this point.
Mother Deuce
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I am going with high speed spinning tire and ... wel,l lets flip the interlock in and the power divider held.
Tags
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I'll go with "that's the way it was when I came back from lunch"....
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Sounds like the place I worked!
At the quarry where I ended up working after high school before I worked there they had a stocking truck driver who every time he took a day off and they put someone else in his truck the clutch would fail. He would bitch about so-in-so wrecking the clutch. Well after that happened a couple times someone got smart. Might have been my dad's idea as he did do some of the wrenching work back in those days.
One day this driver called in sick. Foreman said, "No one touch that truck!" Sure enough driver shows up next day and after first trip to stock pile he's bitching about someone burning up the clutch in his truck! Then they broke the news to him that no one so much as touched the truck.
Not sure if it helped improve his driving but at least he didn't pull that one again!
funwithfuel
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I'd be curious what the dog clutch looks like on the power divider. That and the splines on the through shaft.
I would also want to put a dial on the carrier. It has to be tweaked. Plus I'll bet those thrust washers in the diff are smashed paper thin , if not cracked
I would also want to put a dial on the carrier. It has to be tweaked. Plus I'll bet those thrust washers in the diff are smashed paper thin , if not cracked
RZucker
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I don't know about that, but I had a jackass bar one out and let it drop on the concrete, that was his second strike.