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<blockquote data-quote="moparmagician" data-source="post: 1075520" data-attributes="member: 17598"><p>:looser: Now I hate to do this, but I'm opening up a can of worms here. I have one of these doublers and I was going to build a torque mount for the 205. This is what someone wrote to me when they seen the pics.</p><p></p><p>"Don't take this the wrong way, but on your rear t-case mount, it looks like you've got two mounting points(one on either side of case) to support it; Don't do it...Had a buddy that thought he'd 'secure/support' by fabbing up a similar mounting setup, and ended up breaking the tail end of his tranny(twice)! Reason turned out to be his rear case mount-the fix was to fab a crossmember that has one central mount for the case, to allow for the natural movement of the drivetrain.With the rear case mounted 'solid', and you accelerate, the engine will 'torque' in its mounts, but the t-case won't move; Something's got to give, and the weakest link was the rear snout of the trans in his case.....took two broken transmissions before he figured out what the cause was; He redesigned the rear case crossmember to have one central mount, and wallah, no more broken trannies!!!hope this info is helpful!! "</p><p></p><p>Now that I did some research, I've found several people that have had broken trannys because of a "torque" mount on the t-case. My personal experience is over 25 years of drag racing, and rule of thumb for example, is you never run solid motors mounts and a solid trans mount, you will break the trans. Something has to have some give in it. I am sure engine torque plays a role, but I think even more, frame or body flex does even more. So I am sure it depends on what type of chassis you have. A very solid tube chassis buggy won't flex much, where a full bodied pickup will. My personal setup in my buggy, which hasn't seen a trail yet, uses a single mounting point at the rear of the 205, just to support weight only, it can pivot there. I utilized the NW Fab doubler mounting points and also the stock tranny mount. Just food for thought.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="moparmagician, post: 1075520, member: 17598"] :looser: Now I hate to do this, but I'm opening up a can of worms here. I have one of these doublers and I was going to build a torque mount for the 205. This is what someone wrote to me when they seen the pics. "Don't take this the wrong way, but on your rear t-case mount, it looks like you've got two mounting points(one on either side of case) to support it; Don't do it...Had a buddy that thought he'd 'secure/support' by fabbing up a similar mounting setup, and ended up breaking the tail end of his tranny(twice)! Reason turned out to be his rear case mount-the fix was to fab a crossmember that has one central mount for the case, to allow for the natural movement of the drivetrain.With the rear case mounted 'solid', and you accelerate, the engine will 'torque' in its mounts, but the t-case won't move; Something's got to give, and the weakest link was the rear snout of the trans in his case.....took two broken transmissions before he figured out what the cause was; He redesigned the rear case crossmember to have one central mount, and wallah, no more broken trannies!!!hope this info is helpful!! " Now that I did some research, I've found several people that have had broken trannys because of a "torque" mount on the t-case. My personal experience is over 25 years of drag racing, and rule of thumb for example, is you never run solid motors mounts and a solid trans mount, you will break the trans. Something has to have some give in it. I am sure engine torque plays a role, but I think even more, frame or body flex does even more. So I am sure it depends on what type of chassis you have. A very solid tube chassis buggy won't flex much, where a full bodied pickup will. My personal setup in my buggy, which hasn't seen a trail yet, uses a single mounting point at the rear of the 205, just to support weight only, it can pivot there. I utilized the NW Fab doubler mounting points and also the stock tranny mount. Just food for thought. [/QUOTE]
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