richmond gear broke.
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richmond gear broke.
i have a 4.56 geared '97 t/a. a number of bolt ons and the loudmouth exhuast. good for a 13.5 with ok traction. well had a nasty noise and vibration develop from the rear. i pulled the cover to find my pinion chunked. i was planning to yank the gear set due to a bad install from the last guy who owned it anyway. but this sucks. anyone else have issues with richmond gear sets? i know the rear wasn't set right, but i don't think that would cause the pinion to puke its gears. anyone?
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well since you stated that they were incorrectly installed in the fist place that doesnt help things. i dont have richmond, but have been told that there one of the weaker gear sets especially since u have 4:56's. try motive this time, and get a reputable guy who can install gears.
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2 sets of Richmond 4.10's and I am now running Motive 4.56 gears. The higher you go numercially the less realiable they will be due to the smaller tooth size. I got my Motive gears for around $165.00 on ebay. I was more than satisfied that they lasted the rest of the summer. Very quiet and much better quality cut in the root of the tooth. As mentioned above it doesn't really matter what gear you run if they were not set up right in the first place they will not last long and wheel hop will destroy any piece of the rear end and you can add a multiplier to that if you start running drag radials.
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had a set of motives befor and they crapped out after a 1k miles of easy driving. and they were only 3:73. and then i head from a bunch of other guys that motive sucked.