1st gear thrust washer pic (R154)

[crf_rider]

I broke the thrust washer in my tranny last week. Too much powah! :biglaugh:

Anyhow, I got one from toyota today and thought I would post a pic. This is the washer that higher HP cars keep breaking.

http://www.stillsports.com/mkiii/tw1.jpg

I am going to see how much it will cost to have a duplicate made out of a less brittle material. I will have to find out what this is made of also. Looks like it will be a CNC job so its probably not going to be cheap.

[MDCmotorsports]

Talk to Grant (oneandgone). I made a washer for him out of d2 tool steel, and had it face harded to where you couldn't even scratch it with a file. It wasn't brittle....

He still has it some where....

[crf_rider]

He still has it some where....


Did he not install it?

[MDCmotorsports]

Nope. He went auto.

[IJ.]

Looks like it will be a CNC job so its probably not going to be cheap.
Ummm I'm not "getting" the CNC= expensive equation?

[Stretch]

I think it's because he's going to buy a cnc machine to do it.
eric

[crf_rider]

If the washer was simple enough to duplicate on a manual metal lathe or mill it would be much cheaper than setting up a program on a CNC mill to do it. At least that has been my experiance.

[IJ.]

Simple part like that would take maybe 5>10 minutes to program.

Run time would be maybe another 10 minutes, materials a few $ then heat treating would add a few more so all up not that expensive.

Back in the early days all CNC programming was done by hand so would take time and most shops with a CNC are trying to pay the machine off ASAP so their charges are high, where in fact it costs a lot more to have a human run a part on a manual machine.

A lot of shops won't deal with small run parts as the CNC shines when doing multiples so again they charge ridiculous amounts.

[crf_rider]

Well, hopefully I can snag Grants and I wont have to worry about it.

[IJ.]

Haven't seen him online here for ages!

[crf_rider]

Well, I Cryo treated the new thrust washer. Hopefully that will help.

[daledoe]

Someone thould start selling them:dunno:

[MDCmotorsports]

There isn't enough market to sell them.