Cheap transfer case fix
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Cheap transfer case fix
For those of you who have broken your front diff (inside the transfer case) while having fun in your evo there is good news. I just had TRE rebuild mine with stronger spider gears. New gears and and install was only 500$. This is a much better and cheaper option that buying a whole (stock) transfer case. I was also very pleased with how fast they are. I shipped my TC to them on friday, they called me on wensday afternoon and told me they had it fixed and it was on its way back to me. It came in that friday and i was driving around that night. Transfer case is perfect, zero noise, as good as new.
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Originally Posted by soundfx007
For those of you who have broken your front diff (inside the transfer case) while having fun in your evo there is good news. I just had TRE rebuild mine with stronger spider gears. New gears and and install was only 500$. This is a much better and cheaper option that buying a whole (stock) transfer case. I was also very pleased with how fast they are. I shipped my TC to them on friday, they called me on wensday afternoon and told me they had it fixed and it was on its way back to me. It came in that friday and i was driving around that night. Transfer case is perfect, zero noise, as good as new.
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Originally Posted by Monkey
how much does the TC weigh? Just curious what shipping on that ***** would be.
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Originally Posted by DaGuL
Yeah. I'm curious what they do/replace to strengthen in the spider gears? I'm also curious how do you manage to F____ up a front diff/transfer case?
You break your TC by being too agressive with launches or by inducing wheel hop. Wheel hop rapidly loads and unloads the gears and this high stress cyclic loading is what causes the gears to break.
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The replace the spider gears with stronger gears, that's whht makes them stronger, since they're new stronger gears. ("I just had TRE rebuild mine with stronger spider gears. New gears and and install was only 500$")
You break your TC by being too agressive with launches or by inducing wheel hop. Wheel hop rapidly loads and unloads the gears and this high stress cyclic loading is what causes the gears to break.
You break your TC by being too agressive with launches or by inducing wheel hop. Wheel hop rapidly loads and unloads the gears and this high stress cyclic loading is what causes the gears to break.
maybe you guys laugh on my question, but what is "wheel hop" is? is that change the wheels with larger diameter?
Sorry because i'm from another country that english are not the day to day language. Thanks a lot for every input.
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Wheel hop is when your tires spin -> get traction -> spin -> get traction ->spin..... over and over. This happens very rapidly, and sometimes the tires even bounce off the ground. It usually happens when launching the car, but some high HP (very high HP) cars can do this when shifting into second gear.
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Originally Posted by Monkey
how much does the TC weigh? Just curious what shipping on that ***** would be.