Hmm. Wierd. I've been really busy with work lately, and haven't had time to check the forums, but I swear there was a thread regarding an MSP LSD in a G-box, that had some pictures in it, and ones that I posted at that.
I dunno WTF happened to that thread, does anyone know? Did it get deleted by those darned pesky intarweb gremlins? Anyway:
Gro mentioned that there was a spot that needed to be ground down in the tranny case, and he circled the area in his picture. In my case, I didn't have to do quite the same thing, I only had to grind down a tiny bit of the area where the speedo gear sensor comes in. Here is a picture of the ground area in my transmission: click for the full size picture.
And it was also mentioned that Eric Burmeister, the cool Mazda Rally guy, when driving his Protege, busted the MSP diff wide open, and a fix/reinforcement of that was to weld the ring gear to the carrier. The pictures of that are in a thread on SpecialStage.com. Here is a picture of the test weld I did tonight on an open diff that I broke doing a burnout. It's just a Lincoln 230V mig (sp175plus, if i remember correctly) using ArCO, and set fairly high on the scale of current and wirefeed speed. I didn't really bother protecting any of the diff from splatter, since it's a busted one basically, and I didn't clean up anything. I just let it cool down for a few hours, then took the picture. Again, click for the full size:
This is just a cool shot of the primary and secondary shafts meshing together, I like cool pictures of meshed gears and stuff.
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Anyway, that's all for now...
--sarge
I dunno WTF happened to that thread, does anyone know? Did it get deleted by those darned pesky intarweb gremlins? Anyway:
Gro mentioned that there was a spot that needed to be ground down in the tranny case, and he circled the area in his picture. In my case, I didn't have to do quite the same thing, I only had to grind down a tiny bit of the area where the speedo gear sensor comes in. Here is a picture of the ground area in my transmission: click for the full size picture.
And it was also mentioned that Eric Burmeister, the cool Mazda Rally guy, when driving his Protege, busted the MSP diff wide open, and a fix/reinforcement of that was to weld the ring gear to the carrier. The pictures of that are in a thread on SpecialStage.com. Here is a picture of the test weld I did tonight on an open diff that I broke doing a burnout. It's just a Lincoln 230V mig (sp175plus, if i remember correctly) using ArCO, and set fairly high on the scale of current and wirefeed speed. I didn't really bother protecting any of the diff from splatter, since it's a busted one basically, and I didn't clean up anything. I just let it cool down for a few hours, then took the picture. Again, click for the full size:
This is just a cool shot of the primary and secondary shafts meshing together, I like cool pictures of meshed gears and stuff.
[
Anyway, that's all for now...
--sarge
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