B3422w5
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Got a couple of new bests. Happy about that. But those were Fri night and Saturday morning first thing.
Second round on Saturday( I went red) car acted like it was on ice, then hooked up and took off. Never had it spin like that before( I guess it was spinning, felt like it).
was rewarded with a 7.30 something pass with a 1.90 ish 60 foot.
I put if off to maybe dragging water up to the line or something. Fast forward to the time trial this morning, I look in my rear view mirror in the water box, big smoke off left tire, nothing off the right. Bear in mind I have a spool.
track employee tech guy was up in the tower and told me the same thing I saw, smoke off just driver tire. Came to my pit just to tell me he noticed that.
I get to thinking, when I put on new tires earlier this past week, noticed passenger tire still had groove showing, driver side was shot, zero groove, not fit to run anymore.
I had kinda noticed this issue in the water box for a while, but I thought….,so much smoke, gotta be coming off both tires with a spool
Anyhow, jack the rear end up, both tires turn together. But only one in the water box, and now seemingly at the hit too. Car until this second pass yesterday had been remarkably consistent 60 footing, not stellar, but consistent. And then it went a 1.45 earlier Saturday, very happy with that.
So, anyhow, the way I was pitted, no need to put car in reverse for anything all weekend after getting it off the trailer initially .
Had driven it down to a buddy’s pit because he had a jack, after we looked at it, go to back up out of his pit spot( has a tbrake which I don’t use) but have to push a button to back up car…push the button, just sits there, put it in park, acts like it wants to actually creep forward.
I suspect that spinning on those two passes( or whatever it did) made the tranny go away(904)
so now I have a tranny that won’t work in reverse, try’s to creep in park( all three forward gears still work) and a single
legged rearend that has a spool. What the heck ??
Oh, and it keeps pitching the alt belt every pass, but I think I might have a fix for that.
So my guess is the axles, at least the right one( old and in the car when I bought it) is rolled from turning it driving a good bit on the street, to where the splines are good enough to make both tires turn together with a jack under it, but slips in the water box putting power to it.
Bear in mind the driver side seems fine in the water.
Think the reared end deal has been going on a while, and the spinning at the hit then jumping and taking off twice wacked something in the tranny.
managed to push it off the tilt trailer and drive it in my bay in forward gears.
it’s likely gonana sit for a while.
anyhow, from a nice high, to a crushing low..all in one day
Second round on Saturday( I went red) car acted like it was on ice, then hooked up and took off. Never had it spin like that before( I guess it was spinning, felt like it).
was rewarded with a 7.30 something pass with a 1.90 ish 60 foot.
I put if off to maybe dragging water up to the line or something. Fast forward to the time trial this morning, I look in my rear view mirror in the water box, big smoke off left tire, nothing off the right. Bear in mind I have a spool.
track employee tech guy was up in the tower and told me the same thing I saw, smoke off just driver tire. Came to my pit just to tell me he noticed that.
I get to thinking, when I put on new tires earlier this past week, noticed passenger tire still had groove showing, driver side was shot, zero groove, not fit to run anymore.
I had kinda noticed this issue in the water box for a while, but I thought….,so much smoke, gotta be coming off both tires with a spool
Anyhow, jack the rear end up, both tires turn together. But only one in the water box, and now seemingly at the hit too. Car until this second pass yesterday had been remarkably consistent 60 footing, not stellar, but consistent. And then it went a 1.45 earlier Saturday, very happy with that.
So, anyhow, the way I was pitted, no need to put car in reverse for anything all weekend after getting it off the trailer initially .
Had driven it down to a buddy’s pit because he had a jack, after we looked at it, go to back up out of his pit spot( has a tbrake which I don’t use) but have to push a button to back up car…push the button, just sits there, put it in park, acts like it wants to actually creep forward.
I suspect that spinning on those two passes( or whatever it did) made the tranny go away(904)
so now I have a tranny that won’t work in reverse, try’s to creep in park( all three forward gears still work) and a single
legged rearend that has a spool. What the heck ??
Oh, and it keeps pitching the alt belt every pass, but I think I might have a fix for that.
So my guess is the axles, at least the right one( old and in the car when I bought it) is rolled from turning it driving a good bit on the street, to where the splines are good enough to make both tires turn together with a jack under it, but slips in the water box putting power to it.
Bear in mind the driver side seems fine in the water.
Think the reared end deal has been going on a while, and the spinning at the hit then jumping and taking off twice wacked something in the tranny.
managed to push it off the tilt trailer and drive it in my bay in forward gears.
it’s likely gonana sit for a while.
anyhow, from a nice high, to a crushing low..all in one day
