Help.. what did I just find in my tranny?

[zook]

Hey

I dropped the tranny pan and the pieces you see in the picture I have a link to were there. What are they?? I wasn't having any problems with shifting or anything.....

Here's the link:

http://members.shaw.ca/suzukisamurai80/tranny.jpg


This is a bad thing isn't it?? I don't have much experience with Auto-trannies...

Thanks!~

 

[jasoncitrano]

Only thing i can think of is possibly pieces of a broken snap ring.

EDIT: just saw it was an auto tranny. Yep definitly looks like a snap ring that holds the clutch packs in. If you are comfortable take the input shaft out and find out where it broke and replace it's really not tough at all. What car did it come out of?

 

[zook]

a 91 Talon TSI AWD

 

[jasoncitrano]

same tran's i had. it's a snap ring.

 

[zook]

So do I go through the "back" then?? (The side opposite the bell housing). I took out the bolts on the inside of the bell housing, but I couldn't get that plate off.

 

[gsxeclipse102]

those broke on my 5th/reverse synchro i think. I just left the trans as is and it has been fine since . I should prob fix that.

 

[zook]

Where did you get the snap ring from?? Dealer?? Dealer here is pretty useless.

 

[Defiant]

those broke on my 5th/reverse synchro i think. I just left the trans as is and it has been fine since . I should prob fix that.

Ah.... not many synchros in an automatic. Then again, there's not much of a pan on a manual.

Moved to proper forum.

 

[TotalEclipse112]

It looks kind of thin and irregular to be a sanp ring. It almost looks like the friction material on a band might be gone and it cutting into a drum. I've never seen a snap ring that thin. Simple way to find out if it dosen't bend out of a circular shape easily its a snap ring, if it bends easily its something else.

 

[zook]

Yeah, it's pretty springy material.

Thanks!

James

 

[transdude]

I don't know what it is, and I probably build more of these transmissions than anyone.

What I do know is that it is more than reason enough to pull the trans out and get it fixed.

-John

 

[TotalEclipse112]

I don't know what it is, and I probably build more of these transmissions than anyone.

What I do know is that it is more than reason enough to pull the trans out and get it fixed.

Thats good advice if I ever heard any.