Positively Maybe

[Honest Don]

I needed to get away from the garage build and clear my head a bit.

First step is making a chuck bushing to clamp thin parts:

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Then I got some sintered iron/bronze and made a couple pieces:

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[Honest Don]

The sintered pieces go between the case and the side gears.


Then I got one of these spring inserts. They’re going for around $20-$30 on ebay and claim to be intended for honda/bmw/whatever.

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My Benchmaster claims they fit Fiero/TH125c:

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[Honest Don]

So far, so good.

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With the strap wrench on the output shaft, it takes a pretty good push to spin the spiders

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The diff is kind of a pain to get to, so I wanted to be sure. I tracked down a set of mold & die springs and replaced what the insert came with. Now the strap wrench doesn’t have enough bite to move the spiders at all.

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We’ll see how it works out in practice. I’m pretty optimistic though.

[Emc209i]

In the spirit of positivity; great job!

[ericjon262]

I look forward to hearing about your results.

[The Dark Side of Will]

So now you can hook up with both tires and blow your intermediate band on a WOT 1-2 upshift?

Sorry not sorry... you're running a TH125.

Is that a surface grinder you've repurposed as a horizontal machining center?

Those friction devices help prevent one wheel wonder burnouts... just keep in mind it's not actually a limited-slip device.

[Honest Don]

In the spirit of positivity; great job!

Thanks!

I look forward to hearing about your results.

It'll be a little while until I can get it installed. Going to try and trench for utilities this week.

So now you can hook up with both tires and blow your intermediate band on a WOT 1-2 upshift?

Sorry not sorry... you're running a TH125.

"Those things catch fire, don't they?"

Is that a surface grinder you've repurposed as a horizontal machining center?

It's always been a horizontal mill. However, the current motor is repurposed from a treadmill and the DRO is a repurposed phone mixed with arduino magic.

Those friction devices help prevent one wheel wonder burnouts... just keep in mind it's not actually a limited-slip device.

I figure it's worth a shot since I'm already going through the extra th125. I don't have traction problems now, but the turbo doesn't really come up until I'm almost at the 60' mark. I expect that to change when I get the new converter in. And I didn't want to put a new converter in an old transaxle, so here we are. I'll do a build thread when it's a little further along.