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[LXCHEV]

I blew up 7 "bango's" behind my little 202. But I drove the car hard back then with a 5 speed manual.

As everyone else has said, banjos can and will last if you drive them easy and don't shockload them. I think running small tyres certainly helps prolong their life too, but that's boring and then you just get wheelspin if you try to launch the car hard.

So it all just depends what you want to do with the car. If you plan to enter performance events and really do some fun spirited driving, be on standby to replace it!

My complete 9" assembly with centre, axles, and brakes for $750 out of the trading post many years ago, was literally the single best thing I have EVER bought for my car Once you go 9" you never go back.

[Heath]

I blew up 7 "bango's" behind my little 202. But I drove the car hard back then with a 5 speed manual.

How many of them were rebuilt and not just loose as a goose $20 pinch a part specials with stuffed gearsets?

Call me a whinger but I hate seeing usable parts getting destroyed just because they are cheap & seemingly plentiful.

[mitchg]

Iv blown 3 behind the V6. But I do a lot of drag racing. Havent raced on the current centre and its great!

[rexy]

Heath, The banjo centres and axles get destroyed because they are pissweak bits. They get replaced repeatedly because they are cheap and people dont mind towing their cars home and spending time fixing the shattered remnants of their rear end.
If you have any sort of power increase over stock in a v8 and like to use it even occasionally then a bango is not for you unless you fit the above scenario.
As LXCHEV said, the 9 inch in my car was the best thing I ever did. Bought out of someones unfinished project a new 3.5lsd centred diff with 31spline axles and HQ drums cost me $800. It has remained untouched since fitted 16 years ago.
R

[TerrA LX]

, gouged out the back of the housing and split the bottom of it open...

The big bang theory.
Never had the crown that far out of the caps before.

[LXCHEV]

How many of them were rebuilt and not just loose as a goose $20 pinch a part specials with stuffed gearsets?

Call me a whinger but I hate seeing usable parts getting destroyed just because they are cheap & seemingly plentiful.

HAHA, not a whinger at all mate...you are a very practical person. I can totally understand where you are coming from and why you are fixing up your bango, sorry banjo. It'll be a good project for you, and a good test to see how it behaves.

The centres I went through, were all good condition second hand units. They had good gear-sets, nice backlash etc. Both course spline and fine spline. But no - none of them were new/rebuilt centres. Back then on my P plates, I had a heavy right foot and an easily excitable clutch foot too! LOL. Plus I was running 245's on the rear.

[mr5000]

like i was telling you the other night heath ive given em shit for a few years blew 2 then thought ill rebuild one properly instead of just wacking them in done a few drag days plenty of burnouts even popped a set of tyres still making no noise and going strang may even be used this drag day also
here ya go heath closest bearing wholesalers to you is ringwood

Ringwood
3/65 Heatherdale Road
Ringwood, Vic 3134
Tel: 03 9872 3122
Fax: 03 9872 3553

Email: [email protected]

[rexy]

like i was telling you the other night heath ive given em shit for a few years blew 2 then thought ill rebuild one properly instead of just wacking them in done a few drag days plenty of burnouts even popped a set of tyres still making no noise and going strang may even be used this drag day also
here ya go heath closest bearing wholesalers to you is ringwood

Ringwood
3/65 Heatherdale Road
Ringwood, Vic 3134
Tel: 03 9872 3122
Fax: 03 9872 3553

Email: [email protected]

Not long now till the trailer home of shame.....