Diagnosing Broken Parts

[Todd Black 88]

Bent wheel hitting something on the way around?

[Earendil]

Bent wheel hitting something on the way around?

Anything that prevents a wheel from moving, really. Could be a bent wheel causing the tire or wheel to hit something, but could also be a bent strut tower causing the tire to hit, or a bent control arm, or basically anything that keeps the wheel where it's supposed to be.

This is why I suggest spinning them all to see which one doesn't move and we'll go from there.

[Wanganstyle]

Will do this if all else fails.

Also forgot to mention that when pushing the car into the garage, it would not budge! and yes i know someone is gonna ask if the car was on neutral and hand brake down, Yes it was down and in neutral. It took 6 (including me) grown men to push the car about a car length into my garage. What could cause the car to be so planted to the ground? Before the hit, The car would move freely when off and pushed.

Something that happens to wheel to wheel racers with impact or contact to wheels is broken differential internals. If a rear wheel was hit very hard it can stop the internals and cause carnage. Enough collected broken pieces and it wont turn anymore.

A curb or concrete block is potential worse impact than a racing car wheel imo.

[jalopi]

Sheeeet man, you can just fix that by welding the gears together ;)

[Kelqutub]

Bent wheel hitting something on the way around?

Yeah I need to get an oil pan/oil into the car and start it so I can try to drive it a little and point out broken parts. As for the broken wheel, its the front driver side wheel. Cant jack up the car though, flat tire + low car =no jack clearance. Will firgure it out tomorrow. Shouldent be hard.

Maaaaannn differential is one thing I dont wanna mess with. Or atleast not now. Heard they get really expensive.

Update: sorry guys I forgot to take pics. I was busy pulling the oil pan off of my 325e donor car. So close to removing it. All I need to do is disconnect oil pump. Will update thread with pics tomorrow.

[Wanganstyle]

Sheeeet man, you can just fix that by welding the gears together ;)

Lol u cant weld a lsd

welded is only good for beginning drifters;

for endurance racing unacceptable as tire consumption would be ridiculous.

[Kelqutub]

Thats the donor car. Going to turn it into a cheap drifter. When I pull out the m20 from the coupe it will go in this one. Planning on an m50 or m52 and strap a turbo. Still trying to decide what motor I want to go with and what I can acheive when it comes to performance. Tryna build a ~400hp 11 second car.

[Kelqutub]

And that is the current project. This pic was right after the drift accident and you can see the wheel that took the major blow. This is the car that is getting the engine swap soon after I am done with the fix. I will piece all the parts for the turbo after the swap is done. Will make a build thread after this fix also.

[Kelqutub]

Sorry guys I have been trying to update this thread with pics but I keep getting an error message. Im trying different ways with my phone also but no luck So no pics for now.

Any ways I figured out where the hitting problem came from and you guys were right. I jacked up the car and spun the hit wheel and it was hitting a bunch of stuff on the strut tower/brakes.

[Todd Black 88]

Bent wheel hitting something on the way around?

Do I get a cookie?

[jalopi]

Sure, but only one

[Kelqutub]

Do I get a cookie?

Whole pack of chips ahoy.

[Kelqutub]

So I finally ended up getting the oil pan out the donor car tonight after such little down time to work on the car. (Fulltime worker and full time student) The donor cars motor was blown and I found pieces of metal in the oil pan. Pretty funny if u ask me.

Again I would post pictures but this shit is not letting me. So I get to start unbolting the oil pan on the project car and I get to the back only to find that the transmission cover is missing heres a video that I took.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AO2ZSCQRPw

Meant to say that the transmission keeps dirt out not fluid.