Well the tranny's been having a slight whine now for the past 7 months, but I figured I would just drive it till it blew up and well it finally happened. It was never bad so I wasn't worried about it.

I was drivign the other night, car started clicking and then I pulled over, and pumped the clutch and put it in and out of all gears to see how it felt.

Went in fine and clutch is great (tranny has been pulled so I know clutch and flywheel are fine). Anyway, went to pull away again and all i got was horrible grinding and went no where (clutch fully engaged). Tranny should be rebuilt and back by today or tomorrow. My mechanic at Agile, and I agree its sounds like the LSD went. I will keep you all posted. I had no idea a new gear box was $1750. Hopefully it wont need that and I will get away with no more than $1500 out the door.

I had it coming so I can't complain. Just wanted to keep you all posted. And it should be up and running again for the Sushi Fest May 14-15th in Maryland if anyone is going!

 

$1500 for a rebuild ?

You should have called Len and got a price for a new unit.

 

well the shop charged me like $490 just to pull it and put if back in..... then they shipped the tranny off somewhere else to get rebuilt....

Am I gettign fucked over?

 

yikes...is this something that just "happens" with time? should we all be worried that our LSD's will asplode?

 

no its not somethign that happens over time.

See what happened 7 months ago was....well

We all misshift sometimes can't help it. But I was showing some buddies the car and took 3rd to about 9300 rpms (for those that don't know my R, its fully built so it can handle that rev). well i hit 2nd by accident and MAN did that ******* car slam. Gear whine started and kinda went away like 2 months later, and been fine till about past month sounded like **** and finally went. Soo yea i had it coming....

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by totsie7944 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">well the shop charged me like $490 just to pull it and put if back in.....

Am I gettign fucked over?</TD></TR></TABLE>

Yes.

I will do it for 1/2 of that in your parking lot.
Do you live near Herndon?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by totsie7944 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">no its not somethign that happens over time.

See what happened 7 months ago was....well

We all misshift sometimes can't help it. But I was showing some buddies the car and took 3rd to about 9300 rpms (for those that don't know my R, its fully built so it can handle that rev). well i hit 2nd by accident and MAN did that ******* car slam. Gear whine started and kinda went away like 2 months later, and been fine till about past month sounded like **** and finally went. Soo yea i had it coming....</TD></TR></TABLE>

ouch

 

live in MD man. and i coulda pulled it myself, but its just easier with a lfit and i didn't wanna go through all hell to get it out. gotta take the jdm 4-1 off as well, so they charged me another hour....

 

I'll be interested to hear the diagnosis....sounds like you may have sent all that torque straight to the counter-shaft just as i did. If so you may have broken several teeth and it just took it this long for some metal to finally break more components. I paid $650 for my rebuild....you could have also purchased one new for what you will pay dood! Next time post before you give it to the Stealership

 

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ouch </TD></TR></TABLE>


yea i wanted to cry... got really upset, but what can I do? what happened happened and i just gotta be more careful and learn from it.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by totsie7944 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">live in MD man. and i coulda pulled it myself, but its just easier with a lfit and i didn't wanna go through all hell to get it out. gotta take the jdm 4-1 off as well, so they charged me another hour....</TD></TR></TABLE>

lifts = overated.
out = easy work.
in = easy work.
header = stays on.

 

well i sent it to a local shop not dealership cause i know the guys who own it.... but there was some metal filiments in the tranny fluid when drained. dealership wanted like 3k for a rebuild.....

 

well that sucks for me....

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by totsie7944 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">well the shop charged me like $490 just to pull it and put if back in..... then they shipped the tranny off somewhere else to get rebuilt....

Am I gettign fucked over?</TD></TR></TABLE>

Yeah ... you could have gotten a whole new tranny for that and bought some synchromesh too

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by KalD &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Yeah ... you could have gotten a whole new tranny for that and bought some synchromesh too </TD></TR></TABLE>

If you can find me that deal for $490 I'll take it right NOW!

Don't talk out of your ***. Unless you were refering to stolen stuff then GTFO.

 

I'm pretty sure he is referring to the parts to rebuild his old tranny for 490.
1500, yeah thats a lot, I would have gotten a new type r tranny for that price.
If you're having issues, I would spend the 1k for the quaife

 

no $490 for pulling it and putting it back in (labor). Then i will be paying around 1500 or more for the other company to rebuild it. so I am looking in total of around $2000 for all of this ****.....

Yea I wish I had talked to you guys first...

 

holy ****, they charged 490 to pull and put the tranny back?

 

yea..... they did. I kinda think I should say something now. I amreally pissed and honestly don't have the money to really put out for this bullshit right now.

Sucks to be me right now...

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by totsie7944 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">well i sent it to a local shop not dealership cause i know the guys who own it.... but there was some metal filiments in the tranny fluid when drained. dealership wanted like 3k for a rebuild.....</TD></TR></TABLE>

If there is metal filiments in the fluid there is probably going to metal chunks when they open it....defintely let us know what they tell you happened, i am interested to hear simply b/c i have busted a Tranny before as well!

 

I will keep you posted man. I should be finding out something today hopefully.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by totsie7944 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">no $490 for pulling it and putting it back in (labor). Then i will be paying around 1500 or more for the other company to rebuild it. so I am looking in total of around $2000 for all of this ****.....
Yea I wish I had talked to you guys first... </TD></TR></TABLE>

No offense but you're getting rape without lube dude ... and you said that you know the guys that own the local shop (man, what would be the cost if you didn't know them)

Good luck on the outcome and don't forget to get a second opinion before you do things (I know some of us have to learn the hard way )

 

$1,700 for new tranny &gt; $1,500 for a rebuilt one

 

even the JDM tranny? I have the JDM FD in mine.

 

Unless you feel 100% confident in the mechanic, then yes. To me, peace of mind for a brand new warranteed tranny is worth the change back to the 4.4FD.