When a 10-bolt breaks......
03-11-2007, 09:35 PM
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When a 10-bolt breaks...... When a ten-bolt rear end "breaks", what exactly breaks? Is it the shafts? gears? housing? From what I can gather, most people replace the entire thing in high HP/TQ applications. I would eventually like to put a stroked L92 into my M6 SS. Long prior to that however I want to make sure the rest of the car can handle close to 500 hp/tq. 
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03-12-2007, 03:55 AM
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Well then,...I believe I'll be buy'n some new gears then. lol!....they where stock anyway,....atleast now I'll have an excuse for put'n some 3.73s in now.
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03-12-2007, 06:31 PM
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Originally Posted by WS6 Rampage
Well then,...I believe I'll be buy'n some new gears then. lol!....they where stock anyway,....atleast now I'll have an excuse for put'n some 3.73s in now.
03-12-2007, 06:47 PM
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Here goes... I used to have a pic but I dont anymore 
My gears locked up, the ring gear had like 6 or 7 teeth break off and it cracked basically in half, the pinion gear broke off complete at the bearing and blew an 11 inch hole THROUGH the housing. the posi litterally shattered the biggest chunk left was about the size of a damn half dollar. then from there it proceded to strip my axles and break the yolk off the end of my driveshaft.
total destruction
and that was just from a hard launch in a almsot stock 96 Z28 A4
My gears locked up, the ring gear had like 6 or 7 teeth break off and it cracked basically in half, the pinion gear broke off complete at the bearing and blew an 11 inch hole THROUGH the housing. the posi litterally shattered the biggest chunk left was about the size of a damn half dollar. then from there it proceded to strip my axles and break the yolk off the end of my driveshaft.
total destruction
and that was just from a hard launch in a almsot stock 96 Z28 A4
03-12-2007, 10:26 PM
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Originally Posted by BLKWS.6
LMAO, dude, that 1/2'' thick puff of metal shavings on your magnet in there is normal.
03-13-2007, 12:23 AM
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Originally Posted by Tainted
Here goes... I used to have a pic but I dont anymore
My gears locked up, the ring gear had like 6 or 7 teeth break off and it cracked basically in half, the pinion gear broke off complete at the bearing and blew an 11 inch hole THROUGH the housing. the posi litterally shattered the biggest chunk left was about the size of a damn half dollar. then from there it proceded to strip my axles and break the yolk off the end of my driveshaft.
total destruction
and that was just from a hard launch in a almsot stock 96 Z28 A4
My gears locked up, the ring gear had like 6 or 7 teeth break off and it cracked basically in half, the pinion gear broke off complete at the bearing and blew an 11 inch hole THROUGH the housing. the posi litterally shattered the biggest chunk left was about the size of a damn half dollar. then from there it proceded to strip my axles and break the yolk off the end of my driveshaft.
total destruction
and that was just from a hard launch in a almsot stock 96 Z28 A4
Holy Shiite! That has to be the winner! I wish you still had pictures. Priceless! 
03-13-2007, 01:12 AM
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Originally Posted by WS6 Rampage
Well then,...I believe I'll be buy'n some new gears then. lol!....they where stock anyway,....atleast now I'll have an excuse for put'n some 3.73s in now.
03-13-2007, 01:22 AM
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Originally Posted by PowerShift408
Putting in new gears will not remedy the shittiness in the design of the 10 bolt. It will still explode. It's not the material of the gears, but the actual size of the ring and pinion.
03-13-2007, 01:24 AM
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....yea.........seriously!
03-13-2007, 02:11 AM
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Originally Posted by 2000badbird
when a 10 bolt breaks................. a gm engineer is laughing because it is funny
I like how a nissan rear end has a 10 second TT LT1 running it and it broke after MONTHS of track abuse..and the owner just replaced it with another stock one
