Well I took my transmission off this weekend and out of curiousity, pulled it apart to see why it died. Turns out a bearing on the center shaft (I do not know the "technical" name for it, it is the one the Center Diff is on) disintegrated, scarring up part of the tranny. It also threw chunks of metal everywhere, damaging all the gears. Here are some pics, see if you can find the scars cut through the housing by the gear

Here is a pic with the end plate off. You can see the destroyed bearing.

This is what is left of the bearing:

Here is where the bearing chewed away at the inside of the transmission:

Last Pic. This is just an overall picture of the inside of the transmission. You can see the metal that is everywhere, and the shaft where the destroyed bearing was. Time for a TRE Tranny!

Yowch! That sucks, dude At least you don't seem to down about it, and you sound optimistic also

Originally posted by leet
Time for a TRE Tranny!

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I have been expecting this to happen since I have owned the car. I will simply replace it with a unit that is stronger

That is EXACTLY what happend to my trans.

Damn dude.. this sucks.. At least we now know what that sound was. Bad way to find out though. Time for something better! TRE here you come!

Hehe, I am just glad it broke AFTER you left for Florida Travis

my diff exploding is why i now have a TRE trans with a quife diff.
http://www.turboeclipse.com/broke.html
^ i got a few pix myself.

Holy crap man, what a mess!

See I leave dude and shit breaks! Good thing it didnt happen when I was driving it.

Damn 28PSI?? Hola shit theres nothing left. Remind me to never do that.

Originally posted by dave99gst
my diff exploding is why i now have a TRE trans with a quife diff.
http://www.turboeclipse.com/broke.html
^ i got a few pix myself.

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Make another thread and tell us the long version of that 28psi thing. I would like to know. Nothing like a good story about stuff breaking.

What's this "I" pulled the Tranny stuff???? hmmmmm? I'll remember this Son!!! Seriously I have enjoyed reading these posts they are very informative. COMING SOON!!! DSMDAD.com

^ He helped, but he's a cranky old man

Originally posted by DSMDAD
What's this "I" pulled the Tranny stuff???? hmmmmm? I'll remember this Son!!! Seriously I have enjoyed reading these posts they are very informative. COMING SOON!!! DSMDAD.com

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What you need to do is get your own car and kick your son's ass at the track.

Thats why my dad did. He did a Nitrous Maxima and went 12.1 @ 110mph..

Hehe, he doesn't have enough money....

Then again, I have NO money.

Thanks for the idea. I have been eyeing an EVO............then I woke up.......HA!

Originally posted by leet
This is what is left of the bearing:

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well, there's your problem, you shouldn't have had that screw driver and wrench in the tranny to begin with

Mr. D vs Mike? I'd pay to see that. But I dunno who I'd root for...

You could always trick out Holly's Camry or Mrs D's Tracker!

Leet,

Where you able to use your tranny as a core? or was it simply garbage? In the event of they tranny failing on you, what exactly happened? Where you doing a WOT pull and suddenly heard metal exploding, crunching, grinding etc?

*cough* TRE *cough* Shep


sorry i have a cold



p.s - I rooting for dad on this one

civic619 said:

Leet,

Where you able to use your tranny as a core? or was it simply garbage? In the event of they tranny failing on you, what exactly happened? Where you doing a WOT pull and suddenly heard metal exploding, crunching, grinding etc?

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Wow, OLD thread!

Anyways, I wasn't able to use it as a core, the casing was destroyed. Cracks running through it, it was VERY stressed.

I was coming home from work doing about 40 and it let go. Lost all lubrication immediately, it felt like I hit a brick wall. Clutched in and pulled over. I wasn't at WOT.

I believe the transmission had been ready to fail for the week before, now that I think about it. There really wasn't any noise when it failed, it just simply locked up. I'm glad I was going at a moderately slow speed, that would have SUCKED if it locked up on a freeway.

Shane, I guess you didn't see the thread date but yes I went with a TRE transmission. I like it.