Questions about rebuilding a Banjo diff
#26
Posted 04 March 2010 - 10:32 AM
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.
#27
Posted 04 March 2010 - 02:33 PM
How many of them were rebuilt and not just loose as a goose $20 pinch a part specials with stuffed gearsets?I blew up 7 "bango's" behind my little 202. But I drove the car hard back then with a 5 speed manual.
Call me a whinger but I hate seeing usable parts getting destroyed just because they are cheap & seemingly plentiful.
#28
Posted 04 March 2010 - 02:40 PM
#29
Posted 05 March 2010 - 11:22 AM
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
#30
Posted 05 March 2010 - 03:31 PM
, 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.
#31
Posted 06 March 2010 - 11:21 PM
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.
#32
Posted 07 March 2010 - 11:16 AM
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]
#33 _chrome yella_
Posted 07 March 2010 - 12:41 PM
i have Brett, but for originalty, but i will be gentle with it as it has 285/40/15s on herOnce you go 9" you never go back.
#34
Posted 07 March 2010 - 04:25 PM
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.....
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