what do you make of this?

uhohhotdog151 · Feb 17, 2008

lost my gears in my rear end today. where brand new richmond gears, that i had bobby cryo, they were "professionaly" set up. i broke them in properly. today i was pulling someone out, and we were moving for about 50 feet i heard a pop, then a bunch of grinding and had no rear wheel drive. they had less than 2k milles on them, and thats 90% highway miles. would this be caused by not being setup properly? nothing else was damaged other than the gears. but all the teeth on the ring and pinion are destroyed. the first pic is handfull of the shattered gears out of the housing.

white-rhyno · Feb 17, 2008

Who did you have set them up for you?? Were those the ones Clinton did?

zukkev · Feb 17, 2008

Kinda hard to tell by the pics shown---haven't seen ALL the ring gear teeth sheered off like that; Definitely not cool.....:booo:

Joe Dillard · Feb 18, 2008

Bummer. Were you pulling him in reverse? Basically driving on the "weak side" of the ring gear?

heep70 · Feb 18, 2008

Joe Dillard said:
Bummer. Were you pulling him in reverse? Basically driving on the "weak side" of the ring gear?

That would be my first question :awesomework:

uhohhotdog151 · Feb 18, 2008

heep70 said:
That would be my first question :awesomework:

nope, 1st in single low. running 38x14.5 tsl sx's, 5.29s dual cases, with a stout 90 horse 22re pushing it all. so it defitaly wasnt too much power for the r&p

ljtoy · Feb 18, 2008

Ouch

heep70 said:
That would be my first question :awesomework:

Ditto on the reverse statement, might be able to tell direction of fracture with a clearer photo.

dickwart · Feb 18, 2008

Not reverse, he was pullin' the gal out forwards... So it wasnt ridin' on the weak side...

archer1965 · Feb 18, 2008

failure that catastrophic started with the setup. I would take it back to the "professionals" that setup the third.
this wouldn't be a TG third, would it?

Roccrawler · Feb 18, 2008

gears break....

Roccrawler · Feb 18, 2008

Dont cryo the next set. I havent had good luck with them. seem to break easier.

darius · Feb 18, 2008

Roccrawler said:
gears break....

Yes they do..... and being you are on 38x14.5's I'm surprised that you are surprised....

archer1965 · Feb 18, 2008

darius said:
Yes they do..... and being you are on 38x14.5's I'm surprised that you are surprised....

word

Not Jobless · Feb 18, 2008

**** happens, upgrade and move on :awesomework:

uhohhotdog151 · Feb 18, 2008

gears dont shatter like that just cause. and i beet the hell out of my oldset with the 38's. i just replaced those because i had to drive 30 miles after i broke my main pin and it chewed up my gears. and they were in wayyyyy better shape than these.

Wildman1 · Feb 18, 2008

Roccrawler said:
gears break....

Don't I know it!! :haha: :haha:

Real bummer.

Bunk1 · Feb 19, 2008

Im sure you can diagnose why the gears failed right now. There was something seriously wrong with the set-up to wipe out all the ring gear like that. Im guessing something with the carrier bearing set-up..Maybee the threads got ripped out of the caps or the adjusters wernt threaded in there right.

Drone637 · Feb 19, 2008

When you cyro treat a gear set, it is more likely to shatter. You are increasing the strength but you also make it more brittle then before.

But hey, I've cracked gears with 45hp and 33's on a Sammy front end, so what do I know.

zukkev · Feb 19, 2008

Drone637 said:
When you cyro treat a gear set, it is more likely to shatter. You are increasing the strength but you also make it more brittle then before.

X2; This is true....

MyDixieWrecked · Feb 20, 2008

i would say the professional that set them up may only be posing as a professional i do say the very well could have been set up wroooong... Who set em up ? :redneck: