Drive line issues:

Greg Reimer 7376 · 05-11-2013, 10:40 PM

Gotta question. My 68 Chevelle wagon, 5.57 gears,350 trans, 327/245 horse,went with me to Irwindale for Summit last weekend. Third pass, the rear end failed. I got the car off the track OK, but about six teeth in a row failed on the ring gear. I put a spare set of 5.38's in it, car's together again, but Tony Janes wants me to pull the 350 out and check it for a bad sprag. Which sprag would have failed? The car seems to move in gear fine, I'm not sure if ring gear failure two feet off the line really would hurt it, but the trans comes out next weekend for a look(it leaks anyway, so we were going to reseal it),have any of you ever damaged a trans doing that? When I blew an engine at the end of first gear about two years ago, it rolled the sprag in the converter,which we had fixed, but that was a Powerglide. This three speed is kind of a different animal.Talking about animal, you should see this car leave!

05-11-2013, 10:40 PM	#1
Greg Reimer 7376 VIP Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Glendora,Calif. Posts: 1,135 Likes: 172 Liked 704 Times in 218 Posts	Drive line issues: Gotta question. My 68 Chevelle wagon, 5.57 gears,350 trans, 327/245 horse,went with me to Irwindale for Summit last weekend. Third pass, the rear end failed. I got the car off the track OK, but about six teeth in a row failed on the ring gear. I put a spare set of 5.38's in it, car's together again, but Tony Janes wants me to pull the 350 out and check it for a bad sprag. Which sprag would have failed? The car seems to move in gear fine, I'm not sure if ring gear failure two feet off the line really would hurt it, but the trans comes out next weekend for a look(it leaks anyway, so we were going to reseal it),have any of you ever damaged a trans doing that? When I blew an engine at the end of first gear about two years ago, it rolled the sprag in the converter,which we had fixed, but that was a Powerglide. This three speed is kind of a different animal.Talking about animal, you should see this car leave!