Success AND Failure in the same day?, take the good with the bad.... i think i broke even Options

[Aaron Cox]

ok, some of you remember my tranny follies.....

found the 10 dollar socket, pulled the gear stack, and went to go see joe sharp and thomas (tranny guru)...

we found out what was causing the horrendous gear noise! i got this tranny in a box, with all new synchros/sliders/dogs from Jeff Bonanno for free! (Jeff you rock!) apparently, we assembled everything, and there was a 911 (901) firstgear on their that was different! it had an offset to it, but looked the same to the naked eye!! so thomas fetched me a 1st gear from one of his trannies (this guy rocks) and a new dogteeth for first gear (the 911 ones are different! and this one had a 911 one! ) reassembled the Bitch... and then i watched thomas do an alignment on his car. (i learn something new everytime i hang with joe/thomas)

fast forward 1 hour of traffic.....

i am home. spend 3 minutes, grab my nitrile gloves (which a stole from work (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)) and threw on the nomex coveralls (thanks headrage) and proceded to install gearstack.

Brando came by, and assisted with buttoning up the exhaust....

filled up the tranny with 90w, and started it up.

NO MORE TRANNY NOISES!!!!

hoo freakin ra!!! hell yeeeeaaaahhhhh!
(you can ask brando how excited i was)

thanks to thomas and joe, for figgering out what the deal was....

ok... fast forward 10 minutes.....

car is off ramps, warmed up and ready to rock.
brando is strapped into the 5 points as navigator, and off we go.

first gear... waaaaaaaaaaaa 2nd... waaaaaaaaaaaaa 3rd weeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaa 4 th waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa 5th waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

3rd is on top of second, 4th rocks! it flies!!!!!!

pull back home and pop yells turn it off!!!!!

huge oil leak.....

guess where it is coming from.... between tranny and engine...

i must have knocked out the input shaft seal when i put the stack back in.

I hate life. i hate this crap. i have literally pulled this tranny 3x already (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)



so.... anyone local got a lift? my back is tired of the asphalt....

gratuitous pics of exxon valdez cleanup and tranny guts will be posted after dinner....


AA