Looky What I Found

[Cattletrkr]

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Anybody wanna guess where I found them??

 

[WUnderwood]

oil pan????

 

[steved]

Look like ring gear teeth... or trans...



steved

 

[TRLRTRSH]

Looks more like gear teeth parts, maybe,... rear end?

 

[TCluff]

Ring Or Pinion Rear Diff...

 

[bighammer]

Rear dif?

EDIT: Trick question answer: A CHEVY :-laf

 

[Cattletrkr]

Hint: Forum title

 

[steved]

Hint: Forum title

NV5600 teeth??? I hope not... or at least I want to know what you did to break them!!!



steved

 

[bighammer]

on 2nd look, they look sort of small for rear dif... Transmission?

 

[Cattletrkr]

Rear dif?

EDIT: Trick question answer: A CHEVY :-laf

Well, mom's chevy was sitting in the garage about 500' away... maybe it's contagious.

 

[Cattletrkr]

This pic isn't as clear, but you can still see the breakage on the left side of the pic. Pic from driver's side so left is towards the front. The pieces don't fit together so there might be more broken teeth. I wasn't about to try to find them.
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[Cattletrkr]

NV5600 teeth??? I hope not... or at least I want to know what you did to break them!!!

steved

OOPS! Forgot. Yes, NV5600 tooth (teeth).

 

[Cattletrkr]

I changed the trans oil yesterday and decided to pull one of the fastcoolers off to clean it. I figured it wasn't cooling much with a full caking of oil/dirt. I saw the broken tooth and started feeling around. The pieces were all on the magnet, which is the little piece on the bottom of the second pic.

No signs of anything wrong other than what you see here. No weird shifting, no popping out of gear, no jumping, no nothing. If I hadn't pulled the cooler off I wouldn't know anything is wrong.

 

[steved]

I'd almost tell you to button it up and drive it...

steved

 

[Cattletrkr]

I'd almost tell you to button it up and drive it...

steved

Been there, doing that. I figure those pieces could have been there since the day after I installed the fastcoolers 3 years ago. Might as well run it and see what happens.

EDIT: 200 miles on truck this morning... same as before. Like you said, button 'er up and let 'er go.

 

[Cattletrkr]

Anybody else have any opinions. Aka "bump"

 

[Gary - K7GLD]

That sure looks like a small foreign piece of something hard got in the transmission, and between the teeth...

 

[steved]

Anybody else have any opinions. Aka "bump"

As long as it doesn't cause problems, I'd drive it. It's not like it can get much worse...



steved

 

[TCluff]

i would have it rebuilt before you lose a good core...

 

[Gary - K7GLD]

i would have it rebuilt before you lose a good core...

YUP - I'm with you - as it is, it's just a ticking time bomb waiting to go off at the worse time/place!