Stop me before I touch another transmission!, A story of many broken hard parts. |
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Stop me before I touch another transmission!, A story of many broken hard parts. |
bryanc |
Mar 13 2006, 01:18 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 321 Joined: 9-August 04 From: San Antonio, Tx Member No.: 2,495 Region Association: Southwest Region |
So, here's my 914 story with some recent updates.....
Background: in 1992, I bought a 914 rust-bucket that had just had the tranny rebuilt and the PO forgot to put oil in it. Turns out transmissions don't like that. I bought it for a steal and re-rebuilt the tranny. It lasted for about 30 miles. Didn't torque the mainshaft bolt correctly and it unscrewed itself through the tailhousing. In 1994, I had bought a daily driver 914 (my blue car) and it got ran over in a parking lot. So, while it was being repaired, I decided 'why not rebuild the tranny' since it had the familiar 2nd gear crash. It lasted about 1000 miles. Leaked, ran out of oil, you know the rest. After that, I bought a good used tranny and vowed to never open it up. It still works (knock on magnesium case) Today When I bought the yellow car in my avatar, the PO gave me a second gearbox that the mainshaft bold had backed out of (sound familiar?). He said 'there's lots of shavings in there so it needs to be gone through'. Ok, tonight I decided to go through it.... It's never that easy.... Attached thumbnail(s) |
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