TajMan
20+ Year Contributor
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- Jan 20, 2005
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Salt lake City,
Utah
The car: 1990 Eagle Talon Tsi AWD
I had a long ass thread on 3si.org, as well as two different threads on DSM forums... all three have since been neglected because they're just full of me posting problem after problem after problem.
I've come across a new weird issue so I need suggestions though. As you can see in this pic:
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the end of my passenger's side CV-axle assembly is stuck in the tranny. The strap holding the boot on was cut off and the rest of the axle removed.
Now this is gonna be the 3rd time of me installing the tranny into this car (I'm taking it out right now). The first time I installed just the tranny with the engine already in the car. The second time I used an engine hoist to pull the engine/tranny out and installed a new engine. That time when I had the tranny out of the car, the end of the CV axle was already stuck in the tranny, and with it out of the car I used pry bars and tried everything to pop that CV joint piece out. It wouldn't budge though, its stuck good. I don't understand, don't those things just have a small snap ring that helps keep them in?
The reason I have to have it out now, is because I believe it is getting in the way and not allowing me to drop just the tranny like I'm trying to do again. I've got to pull it out now, its the next step.
Since the tranny is still in the car right now, I used some big vice grip pliers to latch onto the axle end piece, and I used some lengths of wire to really pull on it, but it still hasn't budged.
Any suggestions? You all do not comprehend the nightmare this car has been. I haven't even posted about everything. I'm on my 2nd engine, 3rd time of major work and then turning the engine over (thinking I had fixed the problem), just to find its making a horrible grinding sound. 3 TIMES!!! Grinding sound changed and is coming form a different source now I think,
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I had a long ass thread on 3si.org, as well as two different threads on DSM forums... all three have since been neglected because they're just full of me posting problem after problem after problem.
I've come across a new weird issue so I need suggestions though. As you can see in this pic:
[Re-size to a maximum of 700 pixels.]
the end of my passenger's side CV-axle assembly is stuck in the tranny. The strap holding the boot on was cut off and the rest of the axle removed.
Now this is gonna be the 3rd time of me installing the tranny into this car (I'm taking it out right now). The first time I installed just the tranny with the engine already in the car. The second time I used an engine hoist to pull the engine/tranny out and installed a new engine. That time when I had the tranny out of the car, the end of the CV axle was already stuck in the tranny, and with it out of the car I used pry bars and tried everything to pop that CV joint piece out. It wouldn't budge though, its stuck good. I don't understand, don't those things just have a small snap ring that helps keep them in?
The reason I have to have it out now, is because I believe it is getting in the way and not allowing me to drop just the tranny like I'm trying to do again. I've got to pull it out now, its the next step.
Since the tranny is still in the car right now, I used some big vice grip pliers to latch onto the axle end piece, and I used some lengths of wire to really pull on it, but it still hasn't budged.
Any suggestions? You all do not comprehend the nightmare this car has been. I haven't even posted about everything. I'm on my 2nd engine, 3rd time of major work and then turning the engine over (thinking I had fixed the problem), just to find its making a horrible grinding sound. 3 TIMES!!! Grinding sound changed and is coming form a different source now I think,
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Worked great.
So you're good to go 
The worst part it I'm not sure if I fixed the problem or not, so all I can do is put it back together and try again.
There still are a few problems though, its staying at the shop till monday so they can try and fix some more stuff, I'm done working on the damn car haha. Problems: The clutch didn't work. They are gonna bleed the hydraulics. (I bought the car, the tranny wasn't installed and there wasn't fluid in the clutch resevoir. I put fluid in it but I hadn't bled it yet.) The power steering belt was rubbing on something somehow and smoking a little bit. They are gonna change that and try to figure out if/why something is rubbing on it somewhere. Also there is a slight noise coming from somewhere around the timing belt area. Like rubbing noise almost. You can hear it standing above the engine but you can't even hear it sitting in the car. I'm not sure what I'm gonna do about that. The engine was in the car in the junk yard because the car was rolled over, not because of mechanical issues. It had been sitting for a bit, but the car had the hood closed. I havn't touched the timing belt yet on this motor, I really didn't want to get into it with all the problems I've had with this car. Also the headlights didn't pop up. Actually they were up half way when I saw the car at the shop, but they were stuck there and wouldn't go up or down. I assume a fuse somewhere blew on them when it was in the shop. Where should I check under the hood or under the dash?
