The devil be tryin' ta keel me!
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The devil be tryin' ta keel me!
So after some back breaking tranny pulling today, I found the reason for my driveshaft breaking, and my non-shifting transmission...
As you may recall, last thursday I snapped my driveshaft at teh track. Well I got that replaced, and then the car wouldn't shift!
So after getting the toilet home (very slowly and VERY jerkingly) I decided to get some tools and do some detective work...
From what I can tell, this is what happened...
3 bolts on the bottom of the tranny backed themselves off, one is lost somewhere between here and BMP. the final 2 were hanging on for dear life as I could remove them with just my fingertips.
So WHY did the shaft snap you ask? Well, when you push your clutch in, it forces the release fork dealy onto the pressure plate, and that mysicly removes the clutch from the flywheel, allowing you to shift... well mine didn't work that way. With the 3 bolts loose on the bottom end of the tranny it forced the transmission backwards, tward the rear end. This made the driveshaft lift upwards, causeing it to buckle under a 4000rpm launch, and begin it's downward decend... aparently hanging on within an inch of it's life. Once it finally gave out the transmission would appear fine (cept for the bolts) until you pushed the clutch in again. So basicly the clutch would never disengage because the tranny would give and allow it to eat away at the pressure plate.
Thanks to Baycity clutch for helping me deduce how everything went down, and to Mattback for offering to help out after work, although I got tied up in female stuffs so I kinda didn't utilize his genious for this mission.
Until the next near death expierence ladies and germs!!!
As you may recall, last thursday I snapped my driveshaft at teh track. Well I got that replaced, and then the car wouldn't shift!
So after getting the toilet home (very slowly and VERY jerkingly) I decided to get some tools and do some detective work...
From what I can tell, this is what happened...
3 bolts on the bottom of the tranny backed themselves off, one is lost somewhere between here and BMP. the final 2 were hanging on for dear life as I could remove them with just my fingertips.
So WHY did the shaft snap you ask? Well, when you push your clutch in, it forces the release fork dealy onto the pressure plate, and that mysicly removes the clutch from the flywheel, allowing you to shift... well mine didn't work that way. With the 3 bolts loose on the bottom end of the tranny it forced the transmission backwards, tward the rear end. This made the driveshaft lift upwards, causeing it to buckle under a 4000rpm launch, and begin it's downward decend... aparently hanging on within an inch of it's life. Once it finally gave out the transmission would appear fine (cept for the bolts) until you pushed the clutch in again. So basicly the clutch would never disengage because the tranny would give and allow it to eat away at the pressure plate.
Thanks to Baycity clutch for helping me deduce how everything went down, and to Mattback for offering to help out after work, although I got tied up in female stuffs so I kinda didn't utilize his genious for this mission.
Until the next near death expierence ladies and germs!!!
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So, your tranny is still good, your drive shaft just ate the bird?
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Yup. Driveshaft and pressure plate took the brunt of the damage... the is some scarring on the underbody from where the shaft hit a few times. Nothing major, waiting for the clutch to come back from the shop, and hopefully nothing's wrong with it. I dont want to keep spending money to stay on the road, I want to be faster. 
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