JDSfastGN
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- Jun 16, 2001
Alright, just looking to see what others thought. Some think its pump harmonics and some think its just the converters but the converter hubs cracking is pretty common from what I understand. I have a PTC 9.5 that I love. About 2 months ago I installed a 10 vane pump that put out great pressures (275) and worked great. Soon after I installed it, on its first long trip i got a smoke show behind me. I assumed it was the front seal, but it turned out to be a cracked neck. It was intermittent and would come and go depending on TV pressure and rpm. I talked to Dusty and since the shootout in Noble OK was less than 2 weeks away, I took it to a well known local converter shop that installed a new neck. While putting the pieces to this puzzle together I figured it must have been caused by the 7 vane pump that I had just taken out, because it whined and buzzed when it got hot. I just figured I hadn't driven it with that pump in a while(the whine annoyed me to no end) so it never got hot enough to open the crack and let it spew fluid everywhere. So I installed the converter with the new chromoly neck and took it to Noble with no issues. Now after I took it on a 3 hour trip its doing the same thing. Every once in a while I get a large amount of fluid that spews out and I'm assuming its the same damn issue. So now with a new neck, I have to assume it was my new 10 vane pump that caused the the neck to crack, and here goes another 500$ into this damn thing for another fluke problem haha. Has anybody seen this and found what the issue was? :redface: I'm positive its not the converters fault so nobody think bad of PTC.