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Trying Hard not to Hate "The Anti Prius"

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2 weeks ago It was 1 week until Opening Dune / Desert Season out here in So.Cal. So naturally I was in prep hell trying to get everything together for weekend before Halloween.
I started to feel a funny vibration and it ended out being the flex plate had cracked. 4 days till trip time and I'm forced to pull the trans/TC and replace the flex plate whilst still working the regular day job . Sure why the hell not, I need my blazer, no, I want it to go to the dunes. So now after about 1hr of Dune time I make a bad line choice :doah: and Boom tires off beads, steering wheel slightly bent, fender kinda re aligned, and the trans looks like it got a Colombian neck tie. This is not a whoa is me post because how can it be as we were grinning ear to ear right up until impact, But damn the trans, come on cracked 3/4'z around the case WTH! I just got it out today, this is the third time since January. So Yes I'm finding it HARD to not HATE "The Anti Prius" right now. Should the trans of broke somewhere other than where it did? I thought it would of broke closer to the bell housing, not at the adapter end where the cross member holds it tight.:dunno:


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Damn dude. Do you have a brace that connects trans to tcase? My 700/208 combo has the one from bellhousing to the tcase that i would assume takes some stress off the case.
 
Damn that sucks. Either the bolts were loose or your front shaft is too long. Been there and done that before. Sucks A$$
 
Those blow holes suck. Can't see them over the odd and they are unforgiving.

You going to have it fixed by thanksgiving? I am headed out to Glamis then.
 
Loose motor mount and tight trans mount would do that also. So would twisting the body/ frame pretty good from the hit.
 
your front driveshaft is to long ,when the suspension compressed , your drive shaft bottomed out breaking the tranny at the transfercase end
 
Yea they are sand tires. Never ment for street. I also believe that was his first trip with them which is why I asked.
 
They would be call Desert Masters. Yes it was my 1st trip with them. All I know for sure is that I was at the top of comp hill and could of jumped off the top at around 40mph at least, and without them I struggled to even get to the top. They had great hook-up. I was going to go back to camp and change the fronts to the BFG's just to see if it made a difference because I wasn't sure but maybe just maybe the front had too much grip, but we all know now that catastrophe struck and that run never happened.
 
That is an old school tread. Bean around since the 70's. remember seeing the at Pismo when I was about 10. Dad was envious. They were expensive. But they work great.
 
your front driveshaft is to long ,when the suspension compressed , your drive shaft bottomed out breaking the tranny at the transfercase end
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^^^^^^^ This ^^^^^^^
Notice it's cracked on the pass side worse than the driver side ?
that's because the front drive shaft slammed into the transfer case and pivoted the rear of the transmission case around.
This is the weak point on a T-350 and the T-400's

look at the ends of the slip joint of your front drive shaft....I bet you will see signs of where it stacked solid when the front end compressed the suspension....

don't worry.... it only took me two broken transmission cases to figure that one out ....:rolleyes:
 
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Damn dude. Do you have a brace that connects trans to tcase? My 700/208 combo has the one from bellhousing to the tcase that i would assume takes some stress off the case.
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My trans guy said he and others attended a seminar in which it was presented that those braces were 'bad'. Can't remember why though, but I remember it making sense.
 
My trans guy said he and others attended a seminar in which it was presented that those braces were 'bad'. Can't remember why though, but I remember it making sense.
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I'm pretty sure the rods that come from the motor mounts to the bolt on bellhousing covers are there to help with cracking the bellhousing off the transmissions...those have nothing to do with this breakage that SBD has.

now there IS a brace and a support on some transfer cases that bolts to the side of a 205 and runs up to a bellhousing bolt. that helps stiffen up this pivoting action of the transfer case....

and there is a factory 205 brace that bolts to the frame as well that supports the transfer case also....I guess most people just toss them.... I have only ever seen 1 on a truck...:dunno:
 
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