Breakdown

[Munch]

So there I am driving home from showing my car on Sunday at a local event and bang, I lost all drive with the engine running and still in gear. I got recovered within the hour which I thought was very good but because it was Sunday afternoon they said I will have to have a 2 stage recovery, the first to my house and then on to a garage during the week. 

So upon further inspection with the engine running and the car in gear I checked the prop and found that it was turning, so it is either the half shafts or the diff. Talking with a diff specialist they thought that it was more likely to be the diff considering i'm not running big power and half shafts are generally very strong.  Earlier that day one of my friends asked me what I else I wanted to do with the car, and I said that over the winter I wanted to get an LSD so I think I jinxed myself! I was quite fortunate that it happened so close to home really, as 3 weeks ago I was at Mallory park and I did a session on the track. It was a 280 mile round trip with 4 up so it could have been a lot worse if this had happened so far from home.

Looking on the bright side, I will have a lovely new LSD to play about with soon!

Anyone got any tips for which LSD to get. Burton's sell the Quaife ATB as a direct replacement for the original diff.

[DT36]

When my old diff sh1t itself, it locked up all my driveline. Couldn't really tell what the initial fault was though until I started stripping out the half shafts, then diff assembly. 

Replaced it with a Quaiffe ATB and am very happy with it. Basically it's fit and forget and drives well under normal and spirited conditions. 😁

[Munch]

That's good enough for me then, Quaife it is. Thanks dt