Well, as the title goes really... as of Tuesday the 360 lives no more!

Driving down the M1 on the way to a gig in the middle lane, travelling around ~60mph, having just passed a truck in the slow lane.. clunk, bang, slide. Both rear wheels locked, controlled a slide with some opposite lock and with some luck managed to just get it in the hard shoulder without hitting anything, or spinning it completely - luckily it wasn't raining. I can't even remember what really happened at this point.

Jump out.. look towards the rear of the car.. judging by the oil, that'll be the gearbox broken then. My only interpretation is that the diff gasket has leaked a fair bit of oil in the 70 miles I'd driven from home. The ironic thing is, I'd ordered a diff gasket from Volvo the day before as I'd noticed the casing was oily (as alot of them are as far as I've seen). BUGGER!

Strangely, the 'box didn't give any clues - it wasn't any noisier, and went 'bang' without any warning (from being in the car).

So, gets the AA out.. drag it onto a trailer, drop me off at Birmingham airport, pick up a free hire car and I'm on my way again - whilst the 360's being dropped back.

To add insult to injury the owner of the 740 pickup at the BKV drove past flashing his lights I think he'd understand why I didn't wave back after reading this

I guess this is a warning really, if the diff has being leaking.. get it sorted before its too late! Unlike me!

On a plus note Dream Theater were superb live - even though I missed half an hour, and there are also some impressive skid marks on the M1 south...

damn, sorry to hear that mate , couple of my mates went to see dream theater live aswell, heard it was good.

Nate

Unlucky mate sorry to hear that!!! You gonna get her back on the road?
Cheers Adam

Probably not.. I don't think it's worth fixing, economically and practically

Can get you a box from a 1.7 for like £25? Use you final drive if its intact? Can fit it on your drive with some help from some mates!!!!
Cheers Adam

Now Steve, has Ali hinted at all that he wanted to practise making a welded diff?

Jesting aside, that sucks bigtime. I'd be interested to hear the results of the post-mortem (if there is one), and what you're planning to do next...

cheers

James

The poor thing. Don't scrap just because of that. Its only a days work swapping the box. If you do break her Steve just promis us that you WON'T go near a pug !

Dai

Hi, i got a 360 gearbox and final drive unit for £50 if u want to drive up to wigan to collect it.

regards. Keith

01942 322880 daytime

Well.. I'm checking out a 360GL for sale locally for £100 at the moment. I think if the car overall was a tidier example I'd be more inclined to get a replacement transaxle.. but otherwise, I don't think its worth it.

Cheers for the offer though Keith, but drive what?

Sorry but my psychic powers aint up to much lately. lol

it was just a thought.

if its not worth it then fine, if u should need anything else just gimme a ring and i will see if i got it.

regards

No worries, offers and suggestions always appreciated There are a couple of leads on some other cars at the mo though.

Cheers.

Noooooooooo

Sorry to hear that Steve.

Sorry to here that steve. Well done on controlling it thou. Could of been much worse.

I have a spare sub 30k gearbox and diff.

I dont think the guy with the pickup realized mate , at least he didnt mention it when he picked up my alloys yesterday, sorry to hear about it please dont dessert us Steve, come to Stondon next week it dosent matter what your driving