Breaking in Gears?

One round is a grudge match or a match race.

If you are going to heads up race....like NMRA its a pocket book race.
You will get KILLED with a 12 sec car.
 
ford nut said:
One round is a grudge match or a match race.

If you are going to heads up race....like NMRA its a pocket book race.
You will get KILLED with a 12 sec car.
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Yeah, at that point just about any creativity is legislated out of existence...

But really, all heads up racing means is both cars leave at the same time.
 
ford nut said:
One round is a grudge match or a match race.

If you are going to heads up race....like NMRA its a pocket book race.
You will get KILLED with a 12 sec car.
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hell in a regular TNT session here a 12 second car usually crosses the stripe atleast 1 second slower than the other car.
 
Make sure when doing the swap use the method we developed over the years to make it 1/2 the time and 1/2 the labor. ONLY remove ONE wheel and ONE axel, wayyyyyyyy quicker.

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ONEBADMK8 said:
Make sure when doing the swap use the method we developed over the years to make it 1/2 the time and 1/2 the labor. ONLY remove ONE wheel and ONE axel, wayyyyyyyy quicker.

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yep. And make sure NOT to pull the abs sensors out of the pumpkin. Unplug them from inside of the trunk. Chances are if you pull the sensors you will destroy them or you will break the retaining bolt off inside it's hole.
 
kustomizingkid said:
How would you break the ABS sensors on the back... it is the fronts that are impossible to remove.
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Have you EVER even touched a mark or bird rear. Didn't think so so stfu. Would you rather take a precaution or be a dumbfck and spend 100 bucks on unneeded parts. Oh, and because aluminum oxidizes just as steel would. Adur
 
MarkVIII93 said:
Have you EVER even touched a mark or bird rear. Didn't think so so stfu. Would you rather take a precaution or be a dumbfck and spend 100 bucks on unneeded parts. Oh, and because aluminum oxidizes just as steel would. Adur
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Just to chime in here, I have lost count of the number of tbird and mark diffs that I have removed from cars, and I have never once had difficulty getting one of the rear wheel speed sensors out. Fronts, yes, but never rears. And I live in the northeast too where they salt the hell out of the roads!
 
MarkVIII93 said:
Have you EVER even touched a mark or bird rear. Didn't think so so stfu. Would you rather take a precaution or be a dumbfck and spend 100 bucks on unneeded parts. Oh, and because aluminum oxidizes just as steel would. Adur
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Weird... I'm pretty sure I have owned and torn apart more Mark VIII's than you, and haven't had a single issue removing a read abs sensor from a diff. Like I said though... removing the fronts without damaging them, good luck.
 
Blenderhead said:
Just to chime in here, I have lost count of the number of tbird and mark diffs that I have removed from cars, and I have never once had difficulty getting one of the rear wheel speed sensors out. Fronts, yes, but never rears. And I live in the northeast too where they salt the hell out of the roads!
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No one car is the same. Maybe you were lucky. I Didn't want to run the risk and have to spend more money to get my daily driver drivable. It was a little easier for me to just unplug them.
 
I never had problems with the rears, that doesnt mean they are unbreakable...and unless I had a large cache of parts under my bed like KK does I'd be very careful.

this advice isn't bad advice, by any means.
it's far better to be safe than sorry...

I will say the first and every time that I removed the front abs sensor it alwasy netted me an ABS light...everytime.
 
Blenderhead said:
Just to chime in here, I have lost count of the number of tbird and mark diffs that I have removed from cars, and I have never once had difficulty getting one of the rear wheel speed sensors out. Fronts, yes, but never rears. And I live in the northeast too where they salt the hell out of the roads!
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Ditto.
 
Check the wall behind you - my remark went right over your head.

Or you could just scroll up and figure it out.
 
better safe than sorry. And considering the car had been driven for every winter besides this one. No telling. Difference in preference.
 
just finshed putting the mark back together. She drives great i hear no wine from the gears. i am vary happy seeing as this was my first gear swap. when i took my abs sensors off they were full of rust so was probably lucky that they did not break the bolts were trash and i had to put some new ones in.
 
96mark8 said:
lol yea when i saw there was no wine i could not resist opening her up a couple times :)
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Dont ever use richmond gear sets. FMS is the way to go. Any richmond gear will wine because they are not machined as precisely as fms gears causing the mesh to be more on the center rather than the whole tooth surface.
 
MarkVIII93 said:
Dont ever use richmond gear sets. FMS is the way to go. Any richmond gear will wine because they are not machined as precisely as fms gears causing the mesh to be more on the center rather than the whole tooth surface.
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I don't know what FMS stands for but i put in ford racing gears and track-lock from max and there is ZERO wine i am very happy with them i was expecting some wine so this is even better.
 
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