Broken it 😭

Advikaz · Jul 2, 2024

Trying to ascertain what’s let go tonight at brands.

Motor feels fine.

Noticed tipping in to Graham hill some smoke out the back of the car, upon exit down the back straight, the smoke became a huge plume! And started coming through the vents inside the car as well.
Was rather spectacular 😂 annoying as well as the car was awesome !

Pulled off immediately. Not really sure what it is, I originally thought either the PAS or the brake fluid had shat itself, but they felt okay on the way home.

However, I do now have a bit of a noisy gearbox…. Under load at lower speeds it sounds like a dog box wine from a rally car in 5th predominately but also a little on 3rd…

Any thoughts? I fear the gearbox may have shat itself or the diff ?

Barely use 5th a brands….

Exhaust has shifted as well somehow 🤦🏽‍♂️

DaveDreads · Jul 2, 2024

Can't be that bad, it still works and you drove it home, in my experience when Clio's break they go home on a flat bed.

JamesBryan · Jul 2, 2024

Is there a hole in the box?

Looks to be dripping out fairly quick there?

Advikaz · Jul 2, 2024

JamesBryan said:
Is there a hole in the box?

Looks to be dripping out fairly quick there?

It was pissing out much more prior tbh.. I need to get it up on a ramp.

I don’t think anything mechanical has gone because I can get all gears etc..

Very odd. And very spectacular. Race control thought the motor had exploded. The cloud of smoke was seriously impressive 😂 like an old locomotive peddling down the back straight

DaveDreads · Jul 2, 2024

JamesBryan said:
Is there a hole in the box?

Looks to be dripping out fairly quick there?

Took me three goes to see that on the video.

JamesBryan · Jul 2, 2024

Advikaz said:
It was pissing out much more prior tbh.. I need to get it up on a ramp.

I don’t think anything mechanical has gone because I can get all gears etc..

Very odd. And very spectacular. Race control thought the motor had exploded. The cloud of smoke was seriously impressive 😂

Did you give the oil a sniff test?

Easy to tell between engine and gear oil.

Mr Underhill · Jul 2, 2024

I was going to say possibly a hole or seal failure in the box. The smoke will have been the oil blowing onto your exhaust. The whining is probably the sound of the gears through lack of oil. Off to @NorthloopCup for a rebuild and a diff me thinks.

Advikaz · Jul 2, 2024

JamesBryan said:
Did you give the oil a sniff test?

Easy to tell between engine and gear oil.

I did at the track… but I find hot gear oil to be misleading.

Now I’m home, there’s more, but only slight (probs run dry) and it does smell more like box oil to me now tbh

NorthloopCup · Jul 2, 2024

Clutch cover straps could’ve failed and machined a hole in the gearbox casing. That would explain the smoke and dripping oil.

Advikaz · Jul 2, 2024

Mr Underhill said:
I was going to say possibly a hole in the box. The smoke will have been the oil blowing onto your exhaust. The whining is probably the sound of the gears through lack of oil. Off to @NorthloopCup for a rebuild and a diff me thinks.

Sounds plausible

If there’s a hole, I wonder how?!

Advikaz · Jul 2, 2024

NorthloopCup said:
Clutch cover straps could’ve failed and machined a hole in the gearbox casing. That would explain the smoke and dripping oil.

I think I may be needing your expertise 😂

NorthloopCup · Jul 2, 2024

Or I’ve had a few that have broke a tooth off the sun gears in the diff, they’ve then got trapped between the casing and the diff body and broke the casing.

End result is the same.

NorthloopCup · Jul 2, 2024

Advikaz said:
I think I may be needing your expertise 😂

Lol funnily enough, I think you might be right 😂😂

Advikaz · Jul 2, 2024

NorthloopCup said:
Lol funnily enough, I think you might be right 😂😂

Shall pm you 😂

NorthloopCup · Jul 2, 2024

I’ll have a look and see if I’ve got a spare bell housing half of the casing.

My mate who welds them up for me always looks at me like I’ve walked in his house on Christmas Day and pissed all over his kids when I roll up with a jc5. 😂😂

Mr Underhill · Jul 2, 2024

Advikaz · Jul 2, 2024

Mr Underhill said:
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Lucky I’ve got a pretty mouth

Advikaz · Jul 6, 2024

Peekaboo

darkiera · Jul 6, 2024

Nice one m8,didnt you think that on your drive home your car could be dumping oil etc on the road, causing havoc for any bikers

Clio_fool · Jul 6, 2024

darkiera said:
Nice one m8,didnt you think that on your drive home your car could be dumping oil etc on the road, causing havoc for any bikers

It's a clio, they all leak oil anyway 🤷.

DaveDreads · Jul 6, 2024

His all leaked out on track, he probably drove home with an empty gearbox.

SharpyClio · Jul 6, 2024

How does one break that part of the gearbox case? Has something broken inside and then holed it?

DaveDreads · Jul 6, 2024

I thought the same, something must have hit it from the outside, if it was internal it wouldn't have got home under its own power.

Card Drama Nonce · Jul 6, 2024

darkiera said:
Nice one m8,didnt you think that on your drive home your car could be dumping oil etc on the road, causing havoc for any bikers

SharpyClio · Jul 6, 2024

Just needs to sling some RTV on it and send it. 👍

Mr Underhill · Jul 6, 2024

SharpyClio said:
How does one break that part of the gearbox case? Has something broken inside and then holed it?

Mechanical stress more than likely. My mates did this and was just metal fatigue. I suppose until it’s opened we’re just guessing.

riber3 · 2024-07-26T17:46:04+0100

I really like that poly bushed gear selector where did you get it?

Matt Cup · 2024-07-26T17:58:19+0100

riber3 said:
I really like that poly bushed gear selector where did you get it?

Do you mean the dog bone mount?

riber3 · 2024-07-27T00:52:47+0100

Yep sorry I forgot the name lol

Advikaz · 2024-07-27T10:13:03+0100

darkiera said:
Nice one m8,didnt you think that on your drive home your car could be dumping oil etc on the road, causing havoc for any bikers

Only just read this - sorry.

Gearbox dumped its guts in its entirety at the track. It wasn’t leaking anymore and hasn’t leaked since. Dry as a bone. Most of it vaporised on the exhaust.

Drove it home at about 30mph and the box sounded like a race box. It’s trashed.

I am a biker myself and wouldn’t drive something that’s pissing oil out everywhere.

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