Richmond gears, any good?
02-02-2005, 07:30 AM
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Originally Posted by GT Griller
I got the 3.73's richmond of course and i love them. A little noise at about 65-70 bu nothing that ur exhaust or stereo wont cover. its more of a whur sound. Nothing bad. I had my mechanic put them in cause he used to drag and he said the he recomended richmonds cause he went thru other gears quikly and that the richmonds lasted the longest.
02-02-2005, 10:12 AM
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It sure is my mechanic put them in and took them out like 7 times while i was there. He said that he just couldn't get it to his liking. He wouldn't just say they are heres ur car he took the time and did it right only costed me 125.
02-02-2005, 10:20 AM
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Originally Posted by GT Griller
It sure is my mechanic put them in and took them out like 7 times while i was there. He said that he just couldn't get it to his liking. He wouldn't just say they are heres ur car he took the time and did it right only costed me 125.
(Ok, that sounded funny...
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02-06-2005, 02:35 PM
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when i had my '85 regal 400sbc/th350 380rwhp i had richmand 4.10's in the stock 7.5 10 bolt. never whined at all. i did eventaly snap/shatter the spider gears(opened diff) after 2 years from a hard "fish tail" around a corner. appon breaking a peice of one of the spider gears got between the R&P and actually bent one of the teeth on the pinion slightly. I didnt want to replace the gears since i was going to sell the car soon(so it thought), so i just stuck another stock carrier in it & put it back togther. it made alittle noise crusing, no noise accelerating, and a awful noise decelerating, kinda like the jake brake of a 18 wheeler while slowing down, but the richmands never broke and i drove it for 2-3 months around 2,000miles like that.
if i ever buy gears again im going to buy richmand.
if i ever buy gears again im going to buy richmand.
02-06-2005, 04:17 PM
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Richmond 3.73's in my stock 10 bolt. They make a tiny bit of noise but its definately not unbearable. Like someone mentioned above, the radio or talking to someone easily drowns it out.
02-17-2005, 01:28 AM
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Well I tied a set of 411 richmonds in my 12 bolt and we could not get a consitent pattern around the ring gear.****** was mismachined.I tried to run it any way but had to pull it after 300 mi ,couldn't stand the noise.That is the last richmond gear I'll buy.
02-17-2005, 11:02 AM
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There are 2 sets of Richmonds. One is a cheap set and the other is the USA made set. No one I know has ever had any problem with the good USA set. I just installed 4.10's in my car and the whine is between 40 and 70, but isn't bad at all. I would reccomend Richmonds for the 10 bolts just simply because they are junk as is and could use any help than can get to keep them alive.
