I broke my first ones not knowing that the converter needed to drop down into the trans two times,, not one 
I had a thrust bearing break in my old ten inch converter this summer and it started eating itself up, it made noise and I thought it was the trans, long story short the parts flailing around in the converter made so much trash go into the trans it ended up starting to eat the drive tangs up in the pump. We found that when we took the pump apart to clean it. the tangs where eaten up at the bottom nearest to the gear 
IHTHs
Quote:I am going to go back thru the tranny and see if there is any reason other than fatigue since I am going to have to pull the pump anyway and I will send the converter back to have jason check it altho the wear pattern ( or lack of) on the hub looked consistant around it,,,,I guess the 5900 rpm stall is starting to show some of my weaknesses.
The question is how did you break the drive tangs off
now that your in the big leagues Always good to see you and the rest of the Ohio clan.
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.. the good new's is,,I make enough horsepower to break thing's now.
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.. the good new's is,,I make enough horsepower to break thing's now.
Don't get to excited.
Take my word for it, it doesn't take much
Glad you found it and I hope it's all you find
Quote:no playing Dave, just a banzai pass after seeing the big red at the start, figured I would run it out and use it for a TT for the gamblers race I intended on getting in since I was out of the 10oh race because of a stinkin' -.001 red.
Playing with them at top end will do that - usually happens when you get off the throttle then back on quickly - but with old OEM parts it can happen anytime - after all those pump tangs probably have seen many miles already.
Quote:Quote:no playing Dave, just a banzai pass after seeing the big red at the start, figured I would run it out and use it for a TT for the gamblers race I intended on getting in since I was out of the 10oh race because of a stinkin' -.001 red.
Playing with them at top end will do that - usually happens when you get off the throttle then back on quickly - but with old OEM parts it can happen anytime - after all those pump tangs probably have seen many miles already.
Quote:unfortunately,,,,,,yes.Quote:Quote:no playing Dave, just a banzai pass after seeing the big red at the start, figured I would run it out and use it for a TT for the gamblers race I intended on getting in since I was out of the 10oh race because of a stinkin' -.001 red.
Playing with them at top end will do that - usually happens when you get off the throttle then back on quickly - but with old OEM parts it can happen anytime - after all those pump tangs probably have seen many miles already.
you're a member of the 00x Red club too ?
Quote:I am not disapointed in it's failure, just the timing, I expected it to happen sometime as factory parts were not intended to take this type of abuse,,as far as the high dollar high strength gears they are $225.00.
That happened to me once. The old factory part just gave up the ghost after 40 years. I put new pump gears ($30) in and haven't had any reoccurrance after years of racing. There are also the high dollar pump gears ($150 ?) for even more strength.
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Starter kick back will often break the tangs.
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Someone at the track mentioned that it might be a pump problem. I think it was Russ. I hope it's just the pump.
Butch