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Any warning before spider gears blowup? |
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DAMX
AMC Apprentice Joined: Nov/13/2017 Location: Silicon Valley Status: Offline Points: 194 |
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Posted: May/21/2022 at 12:35pm |
Is there any indicator that the spider gears are getting ready too fail? I've noticed during burnouts that tire smoke comes from both sides of the car. Still more on the torque side. Is this an indicator that the spiders are getting ready to blow? The differential is an open AMC 20.
Regards Dono
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nudhistbudhist
AMC Apprentice Joined: Sep/13/2019 Location: AB, Can Status: Offline Points: 177 |
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Years ago my open 15 died without warning. Near as I can figure, they slowly started to fracture and then just fell apart with a mighty crunch one day during a wide slow curve in the road. Dad and I swapped the axle to another I had around, pulled the cover and checked what happened. We stopped looking after the 14th piece of spider gear
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Greg
1980 AMC Spirit GT 4.0/ax15 swap Ford 8.8 |
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