Well, I went off to install my Powertrax tonight.. Only to find that the
spider gears had worn themselves a nice bed into the crosspin. 3lb sledge,
airhammer, few dozen adjectives, and 2 hours later the crosspin was still
right where she started. To add insult to injury, the broken teeth had
punched a small hole in the carrier, just above the crosspin retaining bolt.
Looks as though the Ford dealer who installed this set 5 months ago (yeah
yeah yeah, I know... Ford dealer.....) may have installed a spider gear that
was a tad to large for the crosspin.
She'll be trailered back to the dealer that put them in tommorrow, hopefully
to make them eat it and buy me a new carrier. My family knows the service
manager there pretty well, so hopefully that will help things along...
Question: *if* the carrier is removed, I'm considering returning the
Powertrax to Summit, and buying a Mopar SG unit. Whomever has/is running
both, what's your preference between the 2? The dak is unfortunately a
mostly pavement dwelling beast now, so I'm not really concerned w/ offroad
performance..
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Jon Smith-Raleigh,NC-http://www4.ncsu.edu/~jdsmith4
'95 318 auto CC 4x4: Accel Supercoil, JBA headers,
dual glasspack, 14x3 FABM, F&B Stage I TB, !EGR,
MSD 8.5's, self-moded intake, 180 degree thermo,
ASP crank pulley, 16" Hayden elec. fan, MP SBEC,
BEST: 0-60 in 6.3 & 1/4mi 15.5@87.5
207.2 RWHP, 276.2 RW ft/lbs
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