More standard transmission woes

[Monkeyleg]

Art, I tore that car down to the last nut and bolt, and rebuilt it into a trophy car. Did a ton of welding, too. Those body compartments really lent themselves to rusting.

Tore the engine completely apart and replaced almost everything. So, yes, I did adjust the valves. I had triple SU's on it, but didn't find them that difficult to tune. The Unisyn helped.

One of the most difficult parts of working on a British car is interpreting the language. Bonnet, boot, spanner, tyre...there were some terms in the manual I still don't understand.

[Brad Johnson]

I had triple SU's on it, but didn't find them that difficult to tune.

See kids, that's what happens when you smoke crack.  It messes with your memory.

Brad

[Monkeyleg]

Wiseguy.

[Phyphor]

The slave cylinder is inside the bell housing? Nice engineering.

No *expletive deleted*it.... Seriously, WTF? On my dad's Nissan pickup, it was bolted to the outside, with the piston applying to a very obvious ARM coming from outside the bell.  Oh so simple to change.


WTF is wrong with those engineers?

[grislyatoms]

Sheesh. $2100 and change.

Some dork took a torch to the transfer case drain plug (to loosen it apparently) and MELTED the transfer case (it's aluminum) around the drain plug. Had a hole drilled and tapped so the goo can be be changed.

The shifter at the tranny was supported with a couple pieces of plastic tubing instead of the normal configuration. Pinion seal in the rear end was leaking. Had a hole drilled and tapped into the front diff so it can be lubed properly. New u-joints (they weren't too bad but what the hell). New starter (it was going bad, the bendix sometimes wouldn't come out). New fan clutch. New clutch, master cylinder, slave cylinder and hydraulic lines. Turned the flywheel around so that it had some good teeth and resurfaced it. There was some other stuff too that I am not remembering right now.

If I don't get another good 100K out of it I am going to go off my rocker.

[charby]

ouch....  So they cooked the transfer case or whomever owned it before you did?

[grislyatoms]

Previous owner torched it.

[Phyphor]

Heh, I know a guy who once used a blowtorch to get a throwout bearing off....

[Monkeyleg]

"Heh, I know a guy who once used a blowtorch to get a throwout bearing off...."

The last boss I had back in the mid-1980's got some tar or other goop on the left front fender of his rather expensive car. He tried to use a Brillo pad to get it off.

Obenient servant that I was, I buffed out the area on company time.

Likeable guy, but a real nitwit when it came to cars.

[Phyphor]

Well, I've had my own moments.  Namely, on a Chevy Spectrum.  Attempting to reinstall the trans after changing the clutch.  The throwout bearing on that trans (FWD) was held on by some wierd wire clip thingy.  Anyhoo, I pick the trans up, try to slide it on, change my grip to a handy arm thing - and the clip/throwout bearing assy goes flying. Repeat 4-5 times (hey, it was a hot day! I wasn't tracking so well,)
I look at the trans, and notice that that handy arm thing is actually the actuator for the throwout bearing...and since it wasn't slid into the pressure plate assy, it popped the clip off and sent the whole damned thing flying.

Never did get the $%$@ing thing back together right.

No big loss, tho.

[RadioFreeSeaLab]

The slave cylinder is inside the bell housing? Nice engineering.

Yes, that happened to my 2002 F-150.  Amazingly, it wasn't under my oh-so-expensive warranty.

[280plus]

In "the old days" when the clutch pedal was connected to the throwout bearing by a fork I did one of the clutch jobs on the Mustang and when I got it all together the thing just wasn't right. Lo and behold, the spring clip that held the fork to the bell housing had broken and the fork was just a flopping around in there with nothing to hold it in place. Yup, back out comes the tranny and back to square one we go... 

[mfree]

Well, I've had my own moments.  Namely, on a Chevy Spectrum.

Impossible. Those were made by our exalted, Sainted Toyota.

[grislyatoms]

Yup, back out comes the tranny and back to square one we go... 

That was my biggest fear on this one, that I would get it all back together and then have to strip it all down again.

It was worth it on this one to let someone else worry about it.

[Tallpine]

Yup, back out comes the tranny and back to square one we go... 

That was my biggest fear on this one, that I would get it all back together and then have to strip it all down again.

I knew a guy one time that tore down a VW transaxle (for some reason - don't remember now what the original problem was) and when he put it back together, he had four speeds in reverse and one forward 

[280plus]

  Whoops!

[Gewehr98]

VW air-cooled transaxles were designed to "flip" that way.  On the Transporter and Microbus chassis, there's an outboard gear-reduction unit at the end of the axle shafts.  If you take a VW Transporter-configured transmission and plop it into a Bug, you'll have 4 speeds in reverse and one forwards. 

[Phyphor]

Well, I've had my own moments.  Namely, on a Chevy Spectrum.

Impossible. Those were made by our exalted, Sainted Toyota.

No way.  It's a renamed Isuzu Gemeni.

All they did was just slap a Chevy badge on it and import it over here.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isuzu_Gemini

[mfree]

WHOOPS. I was thinking about the Nova

Not often I screw up about car stuff, but I'll admit it when I do...

[Phyphor]

WHOOPS. I was thinking about the Nova

Not often I screw up about car stuff, but I'll admit it when I do...

No worries, the gahdamned thing threw me when my cousin's hubby found a clutch for it in the junkyard (clutch for a Chevy.... in an Isuzu that looked and worked the exact same.)

And lemme tell you friend, getting that frelling trans out of that bastard wasn't a game, wasn't work, it was a frelling *ADVENTURE*