2.1L Bad Boy™ Engine Update ..., it's alive! |
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2.1L Bad Boy™ Engine Update ..., it's alive! |
SirAndy |
Aug 18 2004, 06:03 PM
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Resident German Group: Admin Posts: 41,679 Joined: 21-January 03 From: Oakland, Kalifornia Member No.: 179 Region Association: Northern California |
after a few weeks of R & D the engine is finally running!
carbs completely rebuild, new fuelpump, new dizzy and a few more parts, tons of hours of swearing, tire kicking and head-to-wall pounding the car finally left Bill's shop this morning for her first prolonged testdrive. WOW (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smilie_pokal.gif) don't know how many HP but it sure feels like at least 563.28, dude (IMG:style_emoticons/default/aktion035.gif) what a blast! no problem getting her loose through the first 3 gears, yipeeeh ... now the bad part: got to the gas station (after about 4 miles of spirited driving). while i fill her up a guy points to the car "dude, your car is loosing oil". i look under it and WTF? *huge* puddle of oil and it's still pouring down! i roll the car forward and sure enough, there's a quart of brand new swepco on the ground. after some headscratching and a phonecall to brad the conclusion is that the main bearing is going bad (we knew that, you can hear it whine on decel) and now that i put that much more power through the tranny, the main shaft starts to "wobble" due to freeplay causing the seal to leak like a syphon ... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif) so, it's back to the shop for a tranny-rebuild ... will this ever end, i ask you? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif) Andy |
Cap'n Krusty |
Aug 18 2004, 07:12 PM
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Cap'n Krusty Group: Members Posts: 10,794 Joined: 24-June 04 From: Santa Maria, CA Member No.: 2,246 Region Association: Central California |
Having done 914 trannies since tranny school in 1973, that explanation sounds to me, well, a little imaginative. The MS is located by 3 bearings, the front, the rear, and the pilot bearing. If it were slapping around there enough for that kind of leak, the noise would be deafening, it probably wouldn't shift at all, and the problem wouldn't have suddenly appeared. I'd be interested in hearing what you find in there .................... The Cap'n
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