[DeTomaso] transaxle

[Richard Greenblum]

So I can romp on it from a rolling start, of course...

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> On Nov 10, 2015, at 18:37, Tony DiGiovanna <tonydigi at optonline.net> wrote:
> 
> No burnouts, no drag racing?  Geeze, why own it?  ;^)
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: DeTomaso [mailto:detomaso-bounces at poca.com] On Behalf Of Richard
> Greenblum
> Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2015 5:41 PM
> To: tcabanski at tencom.com; detomaso at poca.com
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] transaxle
> 
> Tom,
> 
> Does the car rock back and forth a long way while in gear?  Mine did, and it
> unfortunately turned out to be a very, very rare diff housing failure.  Mine
> cracked, and I never mistreated the transaxle (no dropping the clutch, no
> drag racing).
> 
> Richard
> Austin, TX 
> 
> 
> From:  DeTomaso <detomaso-bounces at poca.com> on behalf of deTomaso List
> <detomaso at poca.com>
> Reply-To:  "JDeRyke at aol. com" <JDeRyke at aol.com>
> Date:  Tuesday, November 10, 2015 at 4:31 PM
> To:  <tcabanski at tencom.com>, deTomaso List <detomaso at poca.com>
> Subject:  Re: [DeTomaso] transaxle
> 
>   Sometimes,  broken bolt-heads will stick to the drain plug magnet or
>   come out while draining the ZF- which slould be done yearly! Note you
>   run the risk of destroying your ZF if one of the broken bolt heads gets
>   caught in the ring & pinion mesh. At the very least, the bottom cover
>   will be cracked as the bolthead squirts out at high velocity. At the
>   worst, the whole case will open up like a walnut.... In a recent
>   Newsletter, there were photos of an owner who found EIGHT broken bolts
>   (out of ten total). This has been a well known problem since the
>   Pantera was still being built. Mangustas were factory safety wired but
>   very, very few Panteras.
> 
>   The two 11-1/2" long cross-bolts through the bearing side-plates and
>   the lower cover keep one from removing the lower cover while the ZF is
>   mounted in the car. And even if it was somehow removed, removing
>   sheared ring gear bolts with no heads and properly torquing new US-made
>   bolts in place, then safety wiring them all the while on your back
>   under the car, is not an easy task. Remove the ZF and do this on the
>   bench.
> 
>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: Tom Cabanski <tcabanski at tencom.com>
>   To: detomaso <detomaso at poca.com>
>   Sent: Tue, Nov 10, 2015 1:31 pm
>   Subject: [DeTomaso] transaxle
> Have always heard an occasionally clunk when I'm waiting at a stop
>   light
> with the car in neutral.
> 
>   Thought it was a bad universal joint, but checking them seems to show
>   they are good & tight.
> 
>   I now think that
> the ring gear bolts are loose or that one or more of
>   the bolt heads may have
> sheared off.
> 
>   They have not been safety wired.
> 
> 
>   Is there an easy way
> to confirm?
> 
>   Look for shaving on the bottom drain plug on in the gear oil?
> 
>   Can you remove the anything while it is in the car to confirm?
> 
> 
> Tom
> 
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