Lpop gears and fluidamprs: answers

[IdahoF350]

There is something to us 6-speed guys breaking LPOP gears, I broke a set at 68k on a hard shift driving like a butt head. Learned my lesson, and to prevent it from happening again, I set the rev limit at 3600 in all of my performance tunes and 3200 in my daily driver tunes and towing tunes. I know, boring, but I can't shift as fast as an automatic...

 

[faster6.0]

Great thread guys, exactly the info I wanted to bring to light. Now someone try an ATI super damper.

 

[IdahoF350]

Great thread guys, exactly the info I wanted to bring to light. Now someone try an ATI super damper.

I'll give you my address and you can send me one! It will take me 20 minutes to install while it's apart right now...

 

[Spindrift]

I'm having a tough time getting my head around the "why" there have been FD failures. In theory, it doesn't make any sense.

 

[weweld]

I have a pile of broken front covers and pump gears while running the FD on my truck went back to stock never broke another.

 

[IdahoF350]

I'm having a tough time getting my head around the "why" there have been FD failures. In theory, it doesn't make any sense.

Fluidamper has a floating ring in a viscous fluid. The idea is that the ring goes stable and the fluid acts as a "coupling" between the floating ring and the damper body. The problem is the ring wants to "fall" in the fluid and thus goes out of balance. If the fluid temperature is not operating temperature, the ring will stay out of balance until everything warms up. Every failure I've seen with a Fluidamper has been on a relatively cool engine. I haven't used one since the late 90's.