Transmission - CVD Wear - Be Wary

Check your CVDs for wear, both on the tranny and on the wheel axles. Look close on the pic below and you can see on mine that it is worn. Drivetrain slop increases the slamming effect when you make rapid transitions from full speed to braking, or from jumping, which means that your tranny and diffs take a beating.

Look at this pic (from STC007) below and you can see some incredible (but typical) wear. This is the kind of slop that will really start to tear up your tranny and diffs. Every time you start/stop or land a big jump, the slack in these loose joints gets taken up with a jolt, which is transferred to gears in the tranny and diffs. This is the biggest cause of tranny/diff failure, IMHO.

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