Ok....Kinda peeved here and need some speculation help from you tranny guys. My performance guy who did the install is not a tranny guy and I don't have one. So I don't even know where to go with this. I'm trying to get an idea of what I'm looking at because it's going to be a pain to flat bed this car (it's lowered) and get it over to someone without having any idea what I may be looking at fixing here. If the costs are going to get to expensive I have other projects going and then I may shelf this one for a bit.
I bought a used t56 from an individual that had a good rating bla bla on and on. I know I take a chance with any used parts but the deal was good and I figured I'd go for it. The tranny was supposedly recently rebuilt. I know it has liberty shafts etc in it because I saw the receipts which were dated from less than a yr ago or so. (ps new spect 3+ clutch, billet flywheel, and mgw shifter if that makes a diff)
So here's what happened. It was put in the car by my performance guy and was making a mechanical sound, almost like a gear whine. He made a call or two to some of his friends who know trannys and they agreed the sound was probably an improperly shimmed bearing. It mostly made the sound with the clutch pedal out when not in gear. When the pedal was pressed there was nothing. I had about 1 hour of driving on the new tranny, not even one hard shift...nothing... and I went to shift from 5 to 2 going around a turn and it woudn't come out of 5th. I pulled it pretty damn hard and it wouldn't budge at all. I turned the car off and it very reluctantly came out of 5th and I eventually fought it into second. I got the car going and limped home. I could not shift it. It was like someone cemented the shifter into second. When I got it in the driveway I could not fight it into Reverse. I just didn't want to break anything.
Again, she was recently rebuilt, I saw the receipts. I think it had about 2k since it's rebuild. If you guys can give me any idea of what it may be that's the problem here that would be great. My performance guy's solution is to take it out send it to a buddy and rebuild the whole thing, costing me 2k. Which my wife would not let happen right now because of work I'm doing to something else. Maybe I can get out of this without a full rebuild
I bought a used t56 from an individual that had a good rating bla bla on and on. I know I take a chance with any used parts but the deal was good and I figured I'd go for it. The tranny was supposedly recently rebuilt. I know it has liberty shafts etc in it because I saw the receipts which were dated from less than a yr ago or so. (ps new spect 3+ clutch, billet flywheel, and mgw shifter if that makes a diff)
So here's what happened. It was put in the car by my performance guy and was making a mechanical sound, almost like a gear whine. He made a call or two to some of his friends who know trannys and they agreed the sound was probably an improperly shimmed bearing. It mostly made the sound with the clutch pedal out when not in gear. When the pedal was pressed there was nothing. I had about 1 hour of driving on the new tranny, not even one hard shift...nothing... and I went to shift from 5 to 2 going around a turn and it woudn't come out of 5th. I pulled it pretty damn hard and it wouldn't budge at all. I turned the car off and it very reluctantly came out of 5th and I eventually fought it into second. I got the car going and limped home. I could not shift it. It was like someone cemented the shifter into second. When I got it in the driveway I could not fight it into Reverse. I just didn't want to break anything.
Again, she was recently rebuilt, I saw the receipts. I think it had about 2k since it's rebuild. If you guys can give me any idea of what it may be that's the problem here that would be great. My performance guy's solution is to take it out send it to a buddy and rebuild the whole thing, costing me 2k. Which my wife would not let happen right now because of work I'm doing to something else. Maybe I can get out of this without a full rebuild