Coming off a roundabout on the way home from donnington and nailed the 3DR, back came out proper good but all of a sudden there was loads of banging and i had lost all drive to the car.
Pulls over and looks like 3 of the bolts have sheared off the diff where the driveshaft joins it But the others are fine

RAC'd home and will sort it in the week

 

not good

 

hope it didnt dent too much mate

 

lol nice, thats what + 350lb/ft torque does i suppose

 

You been messing with then lately or is it too much power you have.



Dave.

 

Your an ANIMAL !!!!!!

 

i was just about to type the same thing

 

good lad!

hope its not too expensive!!

 

can see the for sale ad now.

"one careful owner"

 

Havent touched them Dave

Any excuse to get a new Diff eh

My Missus said, i know what i will be getting you for christmas now

 

NEVER

 

Mark, Use some loctite next time

 

Looks like some came loose, then the reamaing ones sheared

 

 

loctite

 

On my old Saph (400 BHP Bailey engined), did some proper launches once and I snapped the front diff casing clean in half - it made loads of banging noises...but the car drove ok (ish)......Steve Scott took one look at it and said "F**KING ANIMAL"

 

This used to happen on my brothers Golf alot, Shouldn,t of caused much damage, as said above, loctite!

 

Standard chip and T25 turbo

 

wish i had a mrs like that!

 

Shit! Sorry to hear that!

My O/S engine mount sheared off and ripped both my front driveshafts out and shattered the cv joints and cut massive chunks out of my crossmember! Guess thats another good reason to own RWD..... I have heard of props and centre driveshafts cutting holes in floorpans and rolling cars too though! OUCH!

 

See i told you it's the big man upstairs getting his own back for taking the stripes off

Looks clean under there Mark, were's all the oil gone

At least it's repairable thou, thats the main thing

 

lol i killed my diff a few weeks ago too tiff

 

Perhaps it was the glue in the tiger stripes holding the bolts in

 

 

As said, the 3 that are intact have come loose and the others have sheared due to your right foot, but then if they hadn't sheared you wouldn't have known the others were loose....

 

Aye Daz

With a bit of luck i will be able to get the sheared off bits out and bolt her back together

 

The little bits should almost wind out with your finger tips to be honest as there is no tension on them anymore.

I have some left handed drill bits for things like this, just in case they grab and wind out the threads!

 

Now there's an idea

 

You just have to find some!!

 

They must have been loose mate!
You wouldn't believe how many rwd cossies i have seen loose drive shaft bolts on

 

gutted mate

 

Nothing that cant be fixed Rich

 

unlucky tiff!

 

i have had this , and seeing as i only use three bolts in the flange anyway it can be a pain, i check the bolts very regularly !!

 

Why only 3 mark??

 

and three dowels , makes the shafts quicker to remove upon breakages !

 

got ya

 

will go and investigate today

 

Buy some really good quality Torx bits too tiff - the bolts are made of chocolate, and will round off at the first chance they get - replace all the bolts while you are on

Neil.

 

Well done, you'd obviously been giving it some abuse then!
Hope it's not too much of a headache to fix.