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Question to add to that. What clutch and how long is the stock one good for? Right now I've got about 55k on it. Replace or keep? 
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Originally posted by CJFEDERLE:
Yeah if it's dead then the Quaife is what I'm getting. Mabey a new clutch too. And while it's in the shop have the water pump done.
Is their anything I'm missing? Yeah motor mounts. Get the BAT re-inforcements and also fill up that back mount with silicon. All those holes back there rob you of horsepower and responsiveness. Congrats on the blown diff. Had a friend of mine out here.. Yankees23(i think that's the right number) just had the same thing happen to him. End of 4th run, he put a tooth through the tranny casing, made it a bit easier to identify the problem. He's out about 2500 labor and all. And don't forget the rental car while this is happening.
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Isn't a rental car just relatives with extra ones  I am happy to have a hook up here and get labor for free probably the only good thing about this. Thanks to everyone 
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Finally car's fixed. I got a call from the shop this morning. Nothing but a broken bolt  So they didn't even drop the tranny. Good things: Only $100. Get my car back today. Bad things: No LSD No new clutch No lightened flywheel So I guess it's next time for all the mods. Or it a couple grand just happens to fall into my lap. Thanks to everyone for their help
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Originally posted by Terry Haines:
It only takes ONE TOOTH to come off the diff gears and the drive can be lost..... Anything to help prevent this...? Or is just hard driving?
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Originally posted by CJFEDERLE: Nothing but a broken bolt
So they didn't even drop the tranny.
I was suspicious of this assumption that it was a blown differential. I mean, how could it fail while you were stopped and out of gear? Only event I've seen where you take the car out of gear, then try to put it back in and you get nothing, was when an ex-boss roasted his clutch trying to pull cement up a steep driveway. Once he let the clutch plates cool off, they didn't meet any more. Maybe in your case, stopping allowed the broken bolt to fall out of its hole...
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Originally posted by Paul Kienitz: Originally posted by CJFEDERLE: [b]Nothing but a broken bolt So they didn't even drop the tranny.
Only event I've seen where you take the car out of gear, then try to put it back in and you get nothing, was when an ex-boss roasted his clutch trying to pull cement up a steep driveway. Once he let the clutch plates cool off, they didn't meet any more.
Maybe in your case, stopping allowed the broken bolt to fall out of its hole...[/b]Real simple I watched someone do exactly that (blown diff) on his second autocross. so it's easy to assume that this was the case here also.
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Originally posted by CJFEDERLE: Is this really the dierential and is it really that soft? I've been on the car hard a couple of times but this wasn't one. P.O.S. weak a$$ stock tranny.
But thanks for leading me down there, with the exception of my car being dead and the trip back it was a blast. The diff isn't soft. It's hard. It's brittle, meaning that it doesn't absorb shock loads very well. The diff is designed for high mileage, not high performance. Performance diff's don't last as long because they wear out faster being more ductile. Hard = high wear characteristics, low strength Soft = High strength, low wear characteristics. Considering our tranny is for the Forcus/escort with a 4-banger I can see why the diff is too brittle for our engines. Glad to see it was something cheap and inexpensive.
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O.K. What I meant was by soft was just a brittle piece. Sorry I'm a dumbass. But it's great to have my car back. I hated having to drive this old broken down bronco. oh well
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Originally posted by CJFEDERLE: O.K. Sorry I'm a dumbass. Nah.. not a dumbass, I'm just a stickler for correct terms. Something about engineering and all those metalurgy classes.. Most people don't know it.. only us engineering Geeks really care
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