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Originally Posted by
PJ Grady Inc.
Tom,
If I get enough responses like yours I think I'll run, not walk, down to my favorite machine shop and get crackin on it!
Rob Grady
I've got an OEM one still in mine. DPI Josh has told me it's better than the current offerings (of course, this was quite a while ago, so it may not still apply!), but count me in on one of your angle drives for sure I believe the Hervey ones have a very low failure ratio, but come with one glaring flaw that I mentioned earlier in this thread -- it's the wrong ratio! So obviously making an angle drive that isn't so failure-prone is more than doable, but no one has yet combined this with the correct ratio to result in an accurate speed (and, for that matter, mileage!)
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Senior Member - Owner since 2003
I'm still running a Grady "Hardcore" unit that I installed 10 years ago. I've never lubricated it over the course of 50,000 miles and its still going strong!
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Senior Member
On closer inspection it turns out that my angle drive housing has a crack and I need to replace the whole unit. Gears alone won't do any good in my case.
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150,000 miles on original angle drive.......
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Senior Member
Lucky!
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Originally Posted by
SS Spoiler
150,000 miles on original angle drive.......
May I ask you which type of lower speedo cable bracket you have on your car?
This one:
http://store.delorean.com/p-7327-pip...able-brkt.aspx
Or this one:
http://store.delorean.com/p-7328-pip...able-brkt.aspx
Or some other combination of clips or zip ties?
Sept. 81, auto, black interior
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angle drive
Funny you ask, I went out and looked and discovered I have neither one. It is just wire tied to hold it in place.
Did the early cars brackets have problems?
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Originally Posted by
SS Spoiler
Funny you ask, I went out and looked and discovered I have neither one. It is just wire tied to hold it in place.
Did the early cars brackets have problems?
Ok, interesting. I didn't expect you to say that.
I'm not 100% sure what made them change bracket designs honestly. The one with the extended coat hanger looking arm on it might have been harder or more expensive to make maybe? Or they snapped off?
I just was thinking there has to be some sort of aspect that's more consistent to whether they fail early and often or last for 150,000 miles like yours did, than purely based on getting lucky. I thought maybe it was one type of bracket versus another, but yours being wire tied in place doesn't help that theory!
Is there anything else about your angle drive history or the car's history that stands out to you? Any lubrication being done regularly on it (or not done regularly)? What state(s), climate, environment has your car been in for it's lifetime? Anywhere with salt on the roads and driven in the winter?
I've seen ABS sensors go on newer cars from winter road grime, salt and dirt getting in and messing up the connections. Maybe it's something along those lines with the angle drive gears or cables? They seem very particular to being well aligned and free from any form of resistance or foreign matter so road grime getting inside might be something to consider?
Not the easiest thing to get good data points on, but yours at 150,000 miles could be at the extreme end of our scale if I had to guess. Could be one to learn from at the very least.
Sept. 81, auto, black interior
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lucky or what
Ok, mine was a downtown Minnesota car. Original owner lived 3 blocks from the bridge that fell. I had to replace the frame six
months after I bought it [1988] Drive was wire tied when I got it. I'm guessing it's been lubed a dozen times, 30 weight oil or
a squirt of chassis grease. Still have original speedometer cables, never lubed, lambda counter, never greased. Plastic drive cup
repaired with a piece of square brass tubing. Oh, first owner drove it year round, I parked it every winter. I've probably stirred
up the sleeping gremlins, "hey we missed one!", watch my speedometer quit.......
Paul Cerny #2691
Kalispell, MT
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Wow, ok, that's a lot of variables. Nothing jumps out as obvious to me. I haven't heard of the square brass tubing fix for the dust cap. Is that somehow in place in the centre of the plastic cap because the hole got rounded?
How about your trip meter? Does it work? Reset shaft been snapped and replaced before?
Maybe there's something getting over torqued or tightened like when working on the brakes or front bearings or similar that reduces the ability for things to rotate? Or maybe car's that had such work done got them loosened more to allow it to rotate more freely?
Yea, I hope we didn't jinx the "no hitter" either. Knock on your parcel shelf wood the next time you get the chance.
Sept. 81, auto, black interior
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