Anyone kill a rear end???

Shack

1984 Club Car//stretched to 6 passenger, CCP 23hp, stock gears.

Had a wonderful vacation at the beach, cart ran beautifully, absolutely flawless.....almost! Last day, my wife was driving it and heard a "clink". After that, nothing. I had some friends driving it back to the house from the beach, they call, stopped at a trash can, and now it won't go, shakes, grinds, jumps around! Here's what I see:

Fire it up, at idle, no sound. As you give it gas, if you watch the driven clutch, it rotates about 3-ish times, pops, the cart moves forward about a foot, grinds loudly and stops, then driven clutch spins 3-ish times and does it again, over and over. Waited for a case to blow up, never did.

Being pulled back, I dropped it in gear-----no noise rolling without motor.
It shifts fine, but does the same thing and makes the same noise in forward and reverse.

Before I tear into it, any ideas? Deciding whether it's a gear or pin, or if I should just locate a different rearend entirely.

BGW

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nobuckbuild

i would open it up and see whats going on , it sounds like you lost a tooth or some teeth on diff gear with the three turns of the input shaft equals 1 turn of the diff gear , im guessing thats the problem and now you will want to find someone that put in high speed gears and has their old gears laying around that you can swap in , this is usually caused by someone trying to shift a cart that is running and the gears grind , not hard to fix but a pain in the rear to get it done pun intended

Shack

That was my thought as well, contacted Tom at CPP and he said he had never heard of diff gears crashing, said diff was 2x as strong as transmission, but the diff gears are the easier and cheapest of the two, so I'm hoping!!! Thanks for the reply and I'll keep everyone posted.

nobuckbuild

yes but you do not grind cases together do you ?

Shack

Gears? No, I have a floor shift and generally get really good and easy engagement. But, there were alot of different people driving that week, and it was always loaded, so who know what happened.

kgsc

This is a sparky but yep, it died.. Like 4 teeth left on the spider gears..

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Shack

Ewwwww. That really make me curious to see what's up!

bokeasmowl

Ouch, who's the bonehead that did that?

Dave in VA

Ahh--I remember...

kgsc

Well, you see, it was like this.... Pooh happens

It was replaced with a posi that snapped an axle two weeks ago but she pulls like a beast