tales of woe...

well the car went to the tranny shop. It was worse then I expected. I guess the previous owner had "installed" 3:73's... every bolt was loose or sheered off when the case was opened. The ring gear was held on by 2 bolts. all the bearings were trash. There were a few large gouges out of the case, but none through. There were chunks of pinion and posi all over. I needed to replace everything. All the parts came out to about $1100 : $300 4:10's, $400 auburn 31 spline posi were the main things. and labour was about $450 (which sucks cause I can easily do this, but I can't get time off work cause everyone is on vacation now...

I took it out to make sure there is no issues and it's all good, no whine or anything.



BUT...


The clutch cable firewall hookup part broke (the two screws... one of them broke off) so it's mighty tough to shift now. I'll have to bite the bullet and buy a stock replacement for $130 cause I need one tomorrow, and that is all that will be in the city.


In short I'm extremely happy with Extreme Transmission's work. I highly reccomend them.

I hope you enjoyed my story.

Well I went through and checked on the clutch/flywheel, and things are good there, he probably got that done at a shop.

Clutch cable will be here tomorrow, but in the meantime I'm getting the hang of driving "speed-shifting" I think it's called.. It's a very interesting concept. I only leaned of it yesterday from a co-worker.

I hope this is the end of my car woes...

Well interesting things happened. I went to replace the cable and noticed it was a bit different then the one that I just bought. The new one was tight as heck and I only had about 3mm of actual useable clutch... so I started looking around more and saw a couple of goodies. Steeda Quadrant and Steeda adjustable clutch cable... not too bad I guess.... saved me $130.00

Stupid me... the cable nut basically just backed itself off, and thats why shifting suddenly got stupidly tough. I fixed it and now it feels better then it did when I got the car.

I also whooped a Fobra (GT with 4:10's, and cams as the major mods), and a paxton 5.0L on the way home.... good times. Oh and there was some 1994 ish 300TT and a RX7 from the late 90's but those 2 don't count.