Hey guys,
I got a question, so my uncle also has a 325ix touring and his viscous coupling is shot. He did get an other one some time ago but we didn't have time then to fit it.
Today we had a look to test it out of the car like flyboyx stated here on the forum. Turned out we could not feel any fluid resistance, in fact we could not get the thing to spin! It's like someone welded it tight like you would do with a diff.
He called the guy where he bought it from but turns out he doesn't know much about the iX and he bought a lot of parts which included this T-case.
Being that I was eager to find out what was wrong I started with disassembling the damn thing. Only to discover that the viscous coupling was welded to the planetary ring gear. Has someone ever seen this before? Why would one weld the VC to the gear? Because of the welding the planetary ring gear is also warped.
My second questions is, could we try and save the VC as it's not discolored. Obviously it had some heat put into it because of the welding. I'm thinking to grind the welds off (some of them are cracked) and testing the VC again out of the car. Would only be a small job anyway. We could use his old/original T-case and use all the good parts and make 1 good out of 2 bad ones.
Some input on this?
Would appreciate it, thanks!
I got a question, so my uncle also has a 325ix touring and his viscous coupling is shot. He did get an other one some time ago but we didn't have time then to fit it.
Today we had a look to test it out of the car like flyboyx stated here on the forum. Turned out we could not feel any fluid resistance, in fact we could not get the thing to spin! It's like someone welded it tight like you would do with a diff.
He called the guy where he bought it from but turns out he doesn't know much about the iX and he bought a lot of parts which included this T-case.
Being that I was eager to find out what was wrong I started with disassembling the damn thing. Only to discover that the viscous coupling was welded to the planetary ring gear. Has someone ever seen this before? Why would one weld the VC to the gear? Because of the welding the planetary ring gear is also warped.
My second questions is, could we try and save the VC as it's not discolored. Obviously it had some heat put into it because of the welding. I'm thinking to grind the welds off (some of them are cracked) and testing the VC again out of the car. Would only be a small job anyway. We could use his old/original T-case and use all the good parts and make 1 good out of 2 bad ones.
Some input on this?
Would appreciate it, thanks!
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