9/25/22:
2 Weeks ago I rolled the Dice and towed to Clay City. It ended up being a total rainout for the entire weekend. I did get 5 useful Runs Friday Night as week as 3 Passes Saturday Morning for qualifying before the Rain came.
I was able to gather 10 Attendance Points for my efforts.
It also should be noted that I somehow broke the transmission (AGAIN!) on the 3rd Qualifying pass.
the car made a full 1/4 Mile pass with ET within a 100th of the previous run, and then when I tried to come back on the return path (it's a bit uphill after you turn off at the end of the track at clay city). I had no gears, Nothing, no reverse out anything, just park.
Got the car all towed back and up onto the trailer, Got it home, on the lift and pulled the trans. Everything looked pretty good, the last 2 times I had trans issues it was because I was putting things together incorrectly... All of the clutches and steels looked fine, a relief as that means that I guess I could put the trans together correctly. Then I looked at the pump, and yep the nubs for the pump gear drive were gone - Turned into little bits of buckshot.
I have a new Gearset Ordered from A&A Transmission - hopefully it will be here this week, and I will get it all back together again for The Motormile Race in VA, next month!
Carnage pics:
Fortunately the pump support and the front and rear castings of the pump were in serviceable shape, so hopefully with the improved 4130 A&A gears I will not have to worry about this again.
Which was prolly good ' Cause I Should not be running welded spiders anyway.