Dear All

Enclosed is a photo of a friend's gearbox that 'exploded' in his Fury last week, showering him and his wife with oil and bits and trashing the tunnel panelling. It also took out his prop etc (which leads me to think that maybe this caused the problem?

Scary!
Rescued attachment explode1.JPG

YIKES

Everyone was ok - will they get in for a re-drive?

ATB

WOW!! Glad they were ok. Did they have the tunnel diagonals in place? Hope they get it running again soon. Cheers!

They're both OK although a bit shocked!

I'm not sure exactly what happened but the prop joints disntegrated as well - maybe the box seized and blew and, as they were still travellng at speed, the prop gave way as well?

I wonder if something jammed in a cog - or a gear shattered and locked the box up....


atb

steve

I had something similar with a Fiat 128 years ago, the diff picked up something and locked solid at about 80mph on the A38, I caught the spin, but the box was totalled, the casing didn't fracture though. I had to take the shafts out on the side of the road to get towed home

Looks like it went into 2 gears at the same time - bang somethings got to give

or the 5th gear locking nut came undone!

Useful for those wanting an exploded diagram of a Type9 though!

James

[Edited on 31/5/04 by James]