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Soooo... this morning started out well, it's been pretty nice so I decided to go ahead and drive the Boxster in today... took a back road in and saw about 5 deer grazing, it was great!
Ever since I put my factory axle back on I've been getting a little vibration under acceleration which can't be good. This morning was no different but I persevered anyway. So I was almost to work when I pulled out onto highway 41 second gear and leaned into it around 3K or so once I was going pretty much perfectly straight and moments later BAM!! ********************.
This time it was the drivers side which is still the brand new aftermarket axle... starting to think these aftermarket axles just aren't up to this task. Luckily I was almost done rebuilding my other factory axle so I got a ride to the shop and finished putting it back together, went back and swapped it out in the parking lot I broke down in. What a PITA. It is really not that bad of a job but I'm getting sick and tired of doing it!!!
So needless to say I got it going again and limped it back to the shop where it will stay parked until my Tarrett Engineering axle spacers show up sometime next week. Hopefully that alleviates the problem.
I tell you what shocks the piss outta me is that in my last conversation with Steve @ Renegade when I told him what happened with my first axle he reassured me that they haven't broken any axles except on a track car which had been running for 6+ months. They just run stock axles, no mention of custom anything, spacers, LSD, nothing. I just don't buy it. Does my engine/transmission somehow sit further back then theirs do? I dunno but once I put in these spacers I'm gonna run the piss out of it here on the street in front of my shop so I don't get stuck in a random parking lot again. Hopefully it solves the problem.