Diff went for the second time

[Anonymous]

Last post had as title "Clutchplate ripped to pieces", but in fact it turned out to be the diff which splitted. The effect happens when you go beyond the 320Nm.
It happened to me again last week, when I had to accelerate quite strong to get in lane on the motorway.
Since it happened now for the second time I need to find a solution for this.
MikeT had the same problems, and went a more extreme path with the seq. straight cut box, but that isn't an option for a roadgoing car.
On the positive side one could say I managed to get the power above the average tuninglevel. [smilie=icon_clown.gif]



The current diff creates due to it's construction quite some axial forces, which in the end split the diff. Ideal would be to replace it with a torsen type differential, which has no axial forces, but up until now I don't know if it will fit.
The "problem" with this type of diff and our Vee is the lefthandside propshaft, which has a homokinetic joint inside the diff housing. That should have to go, and be replaced by an external joint. The torsen type diff just hasn't room for it.
Don't know yet if there is enough room to put one on the outside, due to the subframe.

Any suggestions on the subjectt?

 

[Mike T]

mine is roadgoing!!!

 

[Anonymous]

Yeah right with earcaps, or didn't you notice your grandchildren are always shouting at ye. That ain't a thing that comes with their age, it's because YOU DON'T HEAR THEM ANYMORE. In the 80's we had eardamage due to the discomusic, that's way way past your time, you got it after your midlifecrisis it's the gearbox related in your car. WHAT DID YOU SAY??? CAN'T HEAR YOU. [smilie=icon_clown.gif]

 

[TRW1]

Mike is an ex-Disco Dancing champion by the way.....little known fact that.

Ask him to show you some moves at FCS........

(Speak up though)

 

[Anonymous]

........one of those in too tight jeans and a pepermint roll in their leftpocket?? are you kidding me?.....NOOOOoooo way.

 

[Mike T]

ahem - my shape chucking days have little to do with my selection of gearbox or indeed my hearing.

There was some cine film around of an excellent "oops, upside your head" performed in Flix in Dartford in 1979.

If I could get it from cine to betamax to vhs to digital tape to cd to pc I'd put it up.

About a third of the way through the mints fell out of my pocket and a guy doing the robot stood on them and blew a fuse - how we laughed!

Then the Village People (really) did YMCA but the hampster ran out of puff in the camera so I missed that.

The 80's pah - the 70's was way louder, you youngsters no nuffin.

 

[TRW1]

As I heard it , the Tony Minero character in Saturday Night Fever was based on Mike and they only asked John Travolta to play the lead when Mike declined to appear as himself. I think he was too busy working on a twin engined Austin Allegro project back then.

 

[Mike T]

That Allegro was a stunning concept and I won't have a bad word said against "Trav", swoooooooooooooon - what collars!

The 1750 maxi engines were a work of art on 45's and if only we could have balanced the carbs properly it wouldn't have driven in circles. The idea of using elastic to link the throttles was genius but using the same technique for the gearbox led to the car ultimately pulling itself in two.

Once glued back together we did away with the elastic and put two people in the car communicating by bean tin and string. The string was "quick string" so commands were received almost instantly and led to some fairly good changes into the same gears sometimes!

We went to 48's ultimately which made 6mpg possible with an unreal 84bhp per engine - transmission losses were about 110% so it went backwards brilliantly.

This was spotted by an italian who paid £1000's for the car.

He was later made a General in the army and the concept was proven in the Italian tank, which people believed to have several reverse gears - the truth is now out there.

The lives that Allegro saved - magic!

 

[Anonymous]

Hmmmmm, the allegro, I prefered the Allegro Vandenplas, classy

 

[Mike T]

to heavy - the equipe was the real monster!

 

[TRW1]

forgot I had still had these pics.
The beast itself.......Running 168bhp and 4wd, stunning for its day. Mike has always been ahead of the game.
That roof rack was a titanium/magnesium mix that was incredibly light. It also helped to stiffen the car which would tend to twist and flex when applying all the power and grip coming out of a corner at 45 degrees of drift.
Nobihuro Nakajima who worked in Austin's Special Developments back then was so impressed with the drifting Mike demonstrated in testing the beast that he later pioneered back in Japan what was to become the D1 Drift Series.

 

[Mike T]

brought a tear to my eye!

If you look carefully you can see the emergency tyre reinflation systen in the shot at the bottom - we got the off the icelanders and adapted it with tea and a gaz stove.

The downforce created by the open rear boot was an inspiration and saved us minutes per race.

The additional tyres and super light rack kept us upright under water whilst the underwater jet system (hoover motor) which you can just see in the top shot gave us an impressive 2 knots in water crossings

I wonder where she is now - the lucky bastard!

 

[Anonymous]

we have an expression: Talking like chickens without heads
Ok, TRW1 and MikeT are by far the utmost champions in talking like chickens without heads.
My god, they shut up every tranny in a retirementhome during teatime conversation [smilie=bowdown.gif]

Where do you both live? Coronationstreet?? And James, isn't this a form of spamming in my item?? Is there any possiblility to ban them from my post?? [smilie=badpc.gif] [smilie=badpc.gif] [smilie=badpc.gif]

 

[Mike T]

Spam!!! - some of the enlightened amongst you will have noticed this is maps backwards - particularly if you are italian

Due to the reverse prowess of the Allegro we used sspams all the time - these were also of particular use to the Italian Army as West was East and East was West which made running away easy and they were eventually sold secretly through Asda, Tesco and Sainsbury in Tins so they were waterproof until needed (brilliant, but those that have eaten spam will recognise they are best read)

I think the Italians were mainly running away from headless chickens that just would not shut up following some covert missions into retirement homes in Amshterdum. This inability to be quiet seemed to manifest itself after a brief Sscmoke of the local gear at teatime leading to much cross-dresssing (magazines now available at crossdressing.com)

Tim and I moved out of Coronation street about seven years ago when a flat become available on Albert Square, albeit getting there backwards took 13 months (using spam), the water crossings were the real bitch.

And James, we never went near Harrys post - it was a large Poodle and I'm not sure you can ban Poodles from anywhere!

 

[Mike T]

Nah - Tim has a huge problem, he lost his Clio in Chippenham about a year ago!