Have you actually broken or have seen someone break one of the following parts?
No hearsay, no it mights happens, you had to be there when breakage occured!

Also please describe what damage occured due to said breakeage, please?

Vote even if you haven't broken anything!





[Modified by 427V8, 3:37 PM 10/5/2001]

 

I had to add one, I actually split the differential in half right at the pin when I caught 3rd gear one time. No idea what kept everything together but it still was drivable, just made a clunky sound. :eek:

Only other thing I've seen was on a C4 who went into some stones on the side of the road, lost traction, then came back up on the road, the tires caught and proceeded to make a pretzel of the one halfshaft.


[Modified by 70PurpleLS7, 2:59 PM 10/5/2001]

 

Took a tooth off the pinion, which proceeded to jam itself in between the ring gear/ carrier and diff cover. So I destroyed the gears and the diff cover and I have never magnafluxed the differential but there is a good chance it is screwed up too.

 

I added the clutch... It's probably not what you're looking for, but when one "breaks" and you're sitting in the car, it's the defining moment of your life... It's a pretty spectacular event, to say the least. :D

 

No clutches are fine. In fact any driveline or suspension part is acceptable.

I'm just thinking there is a lot more folklore about breaking stuff than actual breakage.


[Modified by 427V8, 3:30 PM 10/5/2001]

 

I broke an outer halfshaft ujoint and sheared an ear off a clutch pack steel.

 

I voted for bank account. I actually did this twice: Once when I bought my 77, and once when I bought the house. I still have not recovered from the house. :D

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Differntial. Ring gear bolts backed out, locked up solid, broke case, not even rebuildable. And I was away at a school and the wife had to deal with it. Ouch $1600 for the whole fix including labor, etc. with no core.

 

It's miller time, but how do you vote in a cat? I added caliper. All you have to do is go sideways off the road and fill the wheel with big enough rocks that wedge the wheel to the caliper. Then it tears the caliper off of the swing arm.

 

I added clutch linkage (z-bar snapped)
I also broke the rear spring from a hard landing (don't ask - I actually drove it home) :eek: :crazy:


Have a good weekend
:cheers:

 

had a scare one day with a rear brake caliper. Luckily it happened just as I was pulling up to an intersection and only doing about 20 mph.

I am pretty sure that it was a result of a mechanic not properly doing up one of the bolts mounting the caliper to the trailing arm.

Anyway as I pulled up to the intersection the rear right locked up and lifted and loud bang..... inspection showed one bolt had come out and caliper had swiveled around and broken off.

This occured after complete rebuild and body of restoration (maybe should read customisation) and shortly afterwards found that numerous other parts not tightened.
So I dont think you could count this as failure from poor quality.

 

not a vette.
but a friend has a Twin Turbo Stealth and a G-Tech (little thing that tells HP, G's, etc.) he revved it up and just as the G-Tech read 540HP his output shaft twisted in half, this wasnt just any output shaft either, it was a heavy duty output shaft that he put in a few weeks earlier. furthermore he was the third person to ever do that to that specific model of shaft.

 

I snapped the ears off a brand new tranny once while installing . Never will do that again.

 

Since I can only vote once, I chose differential as I cracked the posi housing where the pin goes thru, but I also snapped the side yoke in half that connects to the half shaft. Still saving for new parts :cry .

 

I went with "bank account" :yesnod:

The &$!@#%$# transmission went south on me yesterday:smash:...three hours before I was to participate with Eric70 in two local homecoming parades!! Talk about aggravation!

 

Got on it and sheared all five wheel studs (right rear) and watched the wheel pass me. These cars have excellent balance though. Didn't drop down onto the suspension until about 5 miles per hour!

 

Don't know if it counts or not since it wasn't in the vette. I had a 65 Scout that I lost U-joints in both driveshafts but they didn't get the chance to break. When one in the front shaft started to go out, I just took it out of 4WD. Luckily I wasn't on any difficult trail, just out messing around. Then I had a rear go out a few weeks later while I was just driving on the street. Just disconnected the rear shaft and wired it up to the truck, put it in 4WD (now FWD since rear was disconnected) and drove home in front wheel drive. Luckily I recognized the vibration and eliminated the cause before any real damage occured. I didn't give the axle U-joints a chance to go out, they got replaced the very next weekend.


[Modified by sharklover, 11:45 AM 10/6/2001]

 

Let's See here....

Clutch Disk...yep been there....twice in my old Mustang.... It's a big pop sound followed by quite a bit of grinding noise! :eek:

Clutch Linkage - Did that in the Mustang too... that was a big pop followed by silence. Kinda odd.

How about about actually grenading a trans... yep did that in my mustang too. actually blew a hole the case! :eek: That was more of a bang followed by the tires locking up for a second the a bunch of grinding and clanking- that was a fun ride. :lol:

Lost a wheel which ripped off the wheel studs once on an old Mone Carlo I had. That was kinda different. Hell I wasn't even doing anything agressive at the time!

My bank account has been broken sice I got it!

Whoops and I almost forgot... I blew a rear too! yep in the same Mustang! Launching it at the track - it was the first pass of the day too...It was quite a bang, then as I tried to limp the car off the track you could hear the chunks of metal inside the rear when it gave up the ghost and locked up. We drug it onto a flat bed and took it to be fixed!

Damn I was rough on that car!

I treat the Vette with much more TLC!


[Modified by Mike69, 11:08 AM 10/7/2001]