i think i snapped my differential, its a quaife lsd and after beating on the car everytime the wheels turb theres a grinding/snapping noise, the axels and clutch are both fine, it does it in neutral as well. has this happened before? I know they are really good and have lifetime warranty.

 

bump

 

are you sure the axles are ok? ive beat the **** out of my quaife and never hurt it. hundreds of 7k launches on 25" slicks.

 

yea driveshaft shop axels and they both look good, when it broke i was on th highway, didnt launch the car all day

 

looking at an axles is no indication of whether it is ok or not. what happend on the highway?

 

i was driving on the highway and ran the car hard, i came to my exit, and accellerated to the end of 2nd gear and then it starting acting up, so i pulled over

 

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describe "acting up"

 

meaning grinding every time the tire spun over once, grinding and both wheels shaking or snapping, in nuetral and in gear, clutch is engaging fine

 

hmmm...sounds like wheel bearings to me.....

 

wait..does this shaking, snapping occurs when car is in neutral while at dead stop or while moving???

 

only when moving, pushed the car in neutral and wether car is started, or no, it still does it

 

wheel bearings..

 

wheel bearings are new have about 5k miles on them

 

Doesn't matter, I've seen wheel bearings go within 1000miles, when they were improperly installed (too tight).

 

Jack up the front, and try to move the tire in an up, and down motion. If you feel play (you'll hear it click to), or if the wheel feels loose, its the bearings. YOu might want to check the axles. Sometimes the boots will looks fine, but everything inside is fubar'd. It doesn't sound like a doff problem. Normally when you snap the diff(or at least the two that I've personally seen), it blows a hole through the case, and tranny fluid goes everywhere. And if you try to drive the car, it won't go anywhere, and you can shift gears while sitting still. The speedo climbs, and the car is stationary. It might not be like that everytime, but my friend has blown his LS trans diff like 3 times, and this happened everytime.

 

dropped the tranny and the wheels move fine w/o axels its not the bearings or axels, sumthing in the tranny, sent for rebuild

 

That ****** sucks. Keep up posted on what the problem was. I'm curious to see if its the diff.

 

What was the tranny fluid level?

 

fluid level was fine, no shavings in oil, looked like new. Once i get the tranny bak ill post the problem

 

*update*

ring gear was shot and fell apart, also the gears were worn out. New tranny and car is fine. Quaiffe was also fine.

 

good that it wasn't your quaife. i broke one and they fixed it for free but it took 4months to get it back.

 

yea i had no worriesw about them replacing it, but i finally have my eg back on the road

 

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Wierd. I have never had an issue when sending in a quaife unit for inspection/repair.

Glad you got your car back on the road.