Suspected Whinning Diff

[jmspec]

Last year whilst building my supper spec on the slowest car build known to man, I gave the car a quick test (on private ground)

The diff was making a horrible whining noise.

I put a topic here on the forum and received a lot of good ideas.

Over Christmas I decided to have a good look at the problem.

Now I feel so stupid and guilty for wasting everyones time.

See photo.

Now sounds so sweet.

Thanks for your help.

Jez

[richyb66]

Oops. Don't be too hard on yourself, sometimes the simplest cause is overlooked. Main thing is it's sorted now and was probably a very easy fix.

[alanrichey]

Absolutely agree. Lost track of the number of times I have assumed the worst when something happened. Glad it's sorted now, looking forward to seeing you complete it

[Guest Ian & Carole]

A picture paints a thousand words Whoops

 

 

Cheap simple fix.

[MarkBzero]

Easily done, hopefully the tyre survived!

[jmspec]

Yes,

Only tried it for a few hundred yards.

[Guest 2b cruising]

No need to beat yourself up over that.

I'm glad it proved such a quick, easy and cheap fix.

Might have been a different story had you not found it and carried on stripping and rebuilding your full transmission driveline system.

[megadodo]

Assumptions will catch everyone out. I have a misfiring daily drive, no compression on cylinder 4. Pull the inlet manifold and you can see all the inlet valves, 1 of the inlet valves on cylinder 4 is covered in crap while all the others are spotless. Pull the head off to find that part of one of the valves on cylinder 4 is missing! Assumption made? New inlet valve is required, obviously, so one new one ordered. On arrival its too big and I'm very confused? Check the head again to find its one of the exhaust valves with a bit missing! Doh!

[Guest 2b cruising]

Erm yes. DOH!!!

Can hurt worse than hitting your hand with a hammer.