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DataXUnknown
09-28-2008, 09:11 PM
Sort of a ranting/need to vent kinda post.

Start of my day, pulling an all nighter because my buddy woke me up...then fell asleep around 8AM woke up at 10:45AM when my buddy calls and ask where I am (supposed to be at The Happening, 240SX meet at Suprieor Nissan). So I jump in my clothes and stroll down.

I show up and half of the people already had left, all there was was some music, and a stand for Jspec and DMAX which I like both. After peeking at a few cars, my buddy and I go to eat some thai food, then go to my buddys house in Ontario.

From Ontario, it's time to go home (around 6:45PM). So I head out to the freeway...and RIGHT as I hit the onramp where my buddy and I part our ways somthing goes wrong. I don't know what the hell happened but my transmission somehow shot itself upwards and started grinding hardcore, through each and every gear. The more load I were to put on it, the louder the grinding. Pulled over several times calling my buddy, luckily if anything my buddy had a trailer at his house 2 miles back where I came from.

I decide to continue and somhow just slowly make it home. Now I am just curious what the hell happened. Previous recent problems include: Popping out of 4th gear as well as grinding when I put it into 4th, will not go into reverse very well I have to hold it in reverse, 2nd gear never goes in smoothly have to hold it in there too, Tranny mount was only holding on from one side.

I managed to whip out the cell phone on the way to record some of the noise. It was a hell of a lot louder in the car than the cell phone recorded. My entire body was vibrating. Every once in a while I'd hear a big clunk like a peice of metal was shot at the wall of the tranny.

YouTube - Tranny Grinding (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6JM1rmDfog)

The car is SR swapped. I also have no money.

Well iono I guess any thoughts on if my entire tranny is screwed, or just the synchros. I'm a bit scared for my driveshaft too.

Sthrteen
09-28-2008, 09:28 PM
that sounds bad :ugh:...I'm surprised you were still able to drive. could be a bearing somewhere in the tranny. best thing I think is to drain gear oil and see if there is any metal shavings or metal chunks. good luck

HS13KLS
09-28-2008, 09:29 PM
hm...

i think that the trans is gone. and why were you driving it home still man! shouldve parked that thing..

turboboost12004
09-28-2008, 09:29 PM
maybe you need gear oil....are there any leaks??

DataXUnknown
09-28-2008, 09:32 PM
^ It was dark when I got home so I'm gunna check tommorow morning. I did smell gear oil in the car so I believe there is a leak somwhere(well now at least). I'll drain and snap any pics/videos I can tommorow before work. Luckily I'm a cross country runner and 2 miles walking/running to work is just as much as a warmup for me.

I parked the car several times, but just decided to keep very light touch on the gas to minimize the grindage. I was like at least 30miles away from home.

93superHICAS
09-28-2008, 09:38 PM
holy shit man, it must be "break your tranny month"
shit i stripped all the teeth on the first gear headed going back up to dallas (was in houston and evacuated from the hurricane ike) and shit just cruisin at 70mph i started to smell gear oil and all-a-sudden it reved up like the clutch was slippin, well i thought it just poped outta gear cause i have a huge shift knob. anyways i downshifted to 4th and it was there, fine so got back up to speed and shifted back up to 5th and nothing was there. pulled over to find out i have no other gear sept 4th. i even put gear oil in and still nada, had to take off from the gas station in 4th gear.


shit hope everything is alright with it. or your gonna end up doing a tranny swap

Z33dori
09-28-2008, 09:47 PM
fuck it... its done for

get to looking for a cheap KA trans...

njd07
09-28-2008, 10:06 PM
could be a backed off flywheel bolt...happned to me lol

DreEzed
09-29-2008, 12:25 AM
Sorry , to hear man. I didn't even see your hatch. My coupe with the black fender had to stay home. Hope you get your tranny problem fixed.

s13 @ fullboost
09-29-2008, 12:33 AM
best of luck with fixing the problem

bunnathp
09-29-2008, 01:02 AM
poor wes =(
<3

Row
09-29-2008, 01:28 AM
If its popping out of gear you might have a misaligned transmission, Bent out put shaft, worn input or output bearings , the list goes on :-/. Hopefully you can get it fixed

DataXUnknown
10-01-2008, 12:50 PM
If its popping out of gear you might have a misaligned transmission, Bent out put shaft, worn input or output bearings , the list goes on :-/. Hopefully you can get it fixed


Somthing you said may be right here, I finally got a day off from work and went under my car today and found some interesting stuff. Check out my new thread in the tech section ---> http://zilvia.net/f/tech-talk/216715-driveshaft-dead.html

J90lude
10-01-2008, 02:15 PM
sorry 2 to hear dat dude