My angle drive from 12 years ago is still chugging along. I oiled it for the first time a few weeks ago. I got a small portable mini grease gun at Harbor Freight and loaded it with 90w gear oil. It will be my dedicated angle drive gun.
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My angle drive from 12 years ago is still chugging along. I oiled it for the first time a few weeks ago. I got a small portable mini grease gun at Harbor Freight and loaded it with 90w gear oil. It will be my dedicated angle drive gun.
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Im glad a three year old thread got bumped by people commenting about how great their original angle drives are.
If only they made the reproductions of a similar quality to the originals the speedbox would not be needed.
That being said I have about 20,000kms or so on my speedbox now and it works great.
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Could you describe your "servicing" of the angle drive. I'm doing some other upgrades in that area of the car right now. Of course, I ran into some unforeseen stuff and am waiting for parts. Good time to service it. I barely looked at it, but it appears someone took a pare of pliers to it pretty good. (Or pretty bad, lol) Is there some kind of nipple on it? (Didn't notice one)Originally Posted by Michael
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- If it is the original one then, there is a screw you remove to open a hole in the drive to add lubricant into it
- If it is one of the earlier reproduction's from DMCH it will have a grease fitting on it
- If it is one of the later reproduction's from DMCH then it will be sealed and unserviceable (you won't be able to lubricate it).
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The company that made the angle drive Martin Gutkowski was selling years ago have outlasted my original drives and Houstons. So far that thing is bullet proof. I heard that they were hard to work with so they stopped making them.
I wish they could work things out or a new source could make them as tough/durable as these.
I really need to update my sig. Over 235K miles now.
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1st angle drive - 58,027 miles (20 years) -- original
2nd angle drive - 48,489 miles (21 years) -- original from donor
3rd angle drive - 26,572 miles (2 years 3 months) -- DMCH
4th angle drive - 21,988 miles (1 year 11 months) -- DMCH
5th angle drive - 7,137 miles (10 months 2 days) -- DMCH
6th angle drive - OVER 113,704 miles and counting (OVER 13 yr 1 month & counting) -- new Martin Gutkowski unit
over 245K miles
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The sig is interesting. Do you have a list of other stuff that has failed you and when? I don't care about light bulbs, but shocks, door hinges, CV joints, ball joints, etc. Do you consider yourself OCD on the car or you just "fix when needed".
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I don't want to hijack this thread so I will send you a PM.
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1st angle drive - 58,027 miles (20 years) -- original
2nd angle drive - 48,489 miles (21 years) -- original from donor
3rd angle drive - 26,572 miles (2 years 3 months) -- DMCH
4th angle drive - 21,988 miles (1 year 11 months) -- DMCH
5th angle drive - 7,137 miles (10 months 2 days) -- DMCH
6th angle drive - OVER 113,704 miles and counting (OVER 13 yr 1 month & counting) -- new Martin Gutkowski unit
over 245K miles
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DMC issued a Service Bulletin adding lubricating the angle drive to the routine service. It helps a lot. You put grease into it. After all this time lubricating the cables is a good idea too. Not all speedo problems are the angle drive. Some are caused by the drive cup (aka dust cover) square hole becoming round, and some because the drive cup slips between the hub and the rim. On one car that was "eating" angle drives with some regularity, I found a post broke off inside the speedo head and the metal clip got it stuck in the workings of the speedometer because of the magnet. It added a lot of drag making the angle drive wear out prematurely. PJ Grady offers a replacement that he calls "Bulletproof". Vendors also offer a 1 piece cable eliminating the Lambda counter. Some think that the Lambda counter contributes to the failures. Make sure you have the support bracket on the left front wheel that holds the speedo cable so it doesn't hang with all it's weight on the speedo drive. Sometimes they are missing and sometimes they are broken. Some cars never have any problems with the speedo and some just seem to always have something going wrong. It does have a high failure rate, high enough so you can't always trust the odometer to have all of the actual miles on it.
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If you are talking about ST-10-10.82, it actually says, "Remove filler screw and oil with SAE 80 or 90 gear oil."
(Basically, grease is for low speed/low temp gears, unlike bearings which have free space....).
Don't fill it or you risk churning....
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I guess I have the original because it has a screw. I oiled it as best I could. It would be nice if it had a grease nipple. The screw threads are too small to install one. Funny how the screw is facing down when the cable is hooked up. (Another engineer sleeping)
Side note, Thankyou SSDelorean for the PM. I really think you should post that in a seperate thread that you could update now and then. There aren't many people driving as much as you.
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