Technical How Hot is Too Hot?

Sharpone · Sep 5, 2026

gene-koning said: ↑

Dan, I think you are going to be OK. The temps across the board are pretty consistent, with slightly higher temps near the brakes ans wheels. The two places the generate the most heat, and the two areas that have tires and wheels keeping the heat from dissipating from.
I have seen many 7 1/4 rear ends die. All of them were failed spider gears from single wheel burnouts, unless some one thought they could do neutral drops. Those 7.25 spider gears are pretty small, when one tire is making smoke, and the other isn't doing anything, the speed those spider gears are spinning is crazy. The speed removed the lube from the spider gears and their shafts, and something locks up, a split second before the boom.
Don't want to blow up the 7.25? Limit the single wheel smoke show to 10 seconds at a time.
Or blow it up! It already has a trailer ride home....
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I’ll have the boss along and she gets excited when I blow things up lol
I think you’re right about being ok. No neutral drops and maybe I’ll just quit the burnouts hmmmm I think the bots took over lol
Dan

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