Quaife Reverse Box pictures

[CRTurboGuy]

Last fall while backing down the driveway, my Quaife reverse box locked up. I sent it off to TX this spring for a teardown/quote to repair, which came back at ~$1500 to repair or ~$1800 for a new one. I've taken some pictures of the insides and thought I'd share in case anyone else was curious to see what it looked like in there.

 

http://www.locostusa.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=12648 (I tried to post the pictures directly here, but got a warning saying that I was trying to post 28 images but only allowed to post 4 images)

 

 

--JOsh

[MHKflyer52]

Hi JOsh,

 

So have you determined what the cause of the failure was?

 

As a side note why not create a photo album with Picasa which is free or one of the other free sites.

Here is a link to Google Picasa:

http://picasa.google.com/intl/en/#utm_source=en-all-more&utm_campaign=en-pic&utm_medium=et

[CRTurboGuy]

Martin,

 

No, I'm not sure what caused the failure. My guess would be heat/lubrication, as the ends of 3 of the little gears are sheared/welded into the side plates, but it had plenty of lube when I drained it. I wonder if my 2 day, cross country trip hastened its demise, but hard to tell.

 

To avoid the cost of replacing it, I attempted to venture down the path of having a new 2 piece driveshaft made, but it's almost 1/3 the cost of a new reverse box. I also considered just welding the internals of the box together and using it as a large carrier bearing to reuse my existing driveshafts, but I didn't have confidence that the welds wouldn't break, so I investigated having a new 1 piece splined shaft made to go through the reverse box, but that too was about 1/3 the cost of a new reverse box. After talking it over a bit with a friend, he pointed out that it'd be hard/possibly unsafe to get the car in/out of the garage w/ my sloped driveway without reverse, so I'm going to hold off and probably end up buying another Quaife. My existing one is an early unit, I've heard that they have made some improvements so hopefully I wouldn't grenade a 2nd one.

 

As to the pictures, I tried posting links to my Photobucket account, but I still got a message saying I couldn't post that many links, my guess is it's an anti-spam measure. I've moved them all into their own album, the link is below.

http://s728.photobucket.com/albums/ww290/crturboguy/Locost/ReverseBox/

 

--JOsh