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belzebub2u

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grrr, got my $3300 "good deal" 95GT and decided to put the 3.55's in it. . get the carrier out of the differintial. . and there is NO S spring holding the posi clutches together!!! needless to say im P.O.'d so now not only do i have to get the gears correctly backlashed im just gonna buy a whole new carrier from Southern Gears here in atlanta for 250. god idiots freakin SUCK! who on earth puts a carrier back together without the spring?

/rant off

thanks for your time, i feel much better now!

 

Sleepy McNastee

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That sucks man. You can only hope it was a mistake I guess.

I have a seal slowly leaking on my left rear wheel. It happened a few weeks after I got gears installed.

 

donjohn

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250$, couldn't u just buy a new differential for that?

 

belzebub2u

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yep

yep, i could get the clutch plate rebuild and the spring for about 150 and have to pay the guy to rebuild it. or pay 250 and have everything brand spankin new. think i will go with the new

 

95snoozer

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you can get diffs from a ford tech that have been pulled for around 80

go make a new friend

 

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mackey

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For 3300 I would expect there to be a "few" problems. I wouldn't expect this to be the first... Unless you just got extremely lucky.

 

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baglock1

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Have you ever considered that it wasn't a screw up? Removing the S spring is an old road racing/autocross trick to reduce corner exit understeer with the stock T-loks.

Don't hate it because you don't understand it. Why not call up a junkyard and get the spring for $10 and call it a day?

 

RIO5.0

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baglock1 said:

Don't hate it because you don't understand it. Why not call up a junkyard and get the spring for $10 and call it a day?

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What he said....its nothing serious to install the S spring...way cheaper....

Ford part numbers on the springs....while you have it out, put in the 4 clutch packs to beef it up some, and you can add the F-150 for an even beefier set-up....
Mustang: E0AZ-4214-A ($11.99)
F-150: F3TZ-4214-A ($11.99)

 

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fastf50rd

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What's an S spring?

 

HISSIN50

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RIO5.0 said:

and you can add the F-150 for an even beefier set-up....

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89MustangGX

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baglock1 said:

Why not call up a junkyard and get the spring for $10 and call it a day?

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Junkyards are a wonderful place.

 

RIO5.0

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fastf50rd said:

What's an S spring?

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Here is the S spring being installed....it put pressure on the clutch packs...
when you look at the pic, up top, youll see the spider gear and behind that you can see the clutch pack....i used 4 clutches versus the stock 3...

 

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fastf50rd

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wow, thanks for that. Thats a perfect pic to explain it.

 

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baglock1

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Hmmm, I wonder how it got that name...?