I went clubbing last night and I bottomed out pretty bad a few times on this **** *** road the club was on. I thought nothing of it till I noticed a strange noise coming from the front of the car. So I wake up this morning to take a look at the damage I couldnt believe what I saw. I have a hole about 6"x4" on the bell housing and my header has been crushed in about 1/2". The flywheel and cluch are totally exposed and I think I slightly bent the fly wheel. Other than buying a new bellhousing or trans what can I do?
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Modified by fastwanabe at 11:35 PM 4/13/2003

 

hmm.....i dont know if "bending" the flywheel is possible, but if it were me, i'd definitely have it checked out and diagnosed by a professional......worse outcome is that you may have to buy a new tranny

 

Josh, that sucks! Are h22 trannies real expensive? the only fix I can think of would be to find a highly skilled welder, and the piece that broke off and, if you can even weld cast aluminum, maybe someone could fix it. It would probably cheaper and easier to buy a new tranny. sorry to hear about that.

 

Can't weld something like that. I see a new tranny or case in your future...

 

New tranny enless you wanna buy a bell housing and swap the guts out of that tranny into yours ..which is also gonna cost a grip to get done along with the bell housing. So Id say time for a new tranny bro

 

If you can find the piece you broke off, JB Weld that bitch back together For $5 you can get some JB Weld and I guarantee it will hold it on there As for the flywheel, why do you think it's bent? I personally think it would be pretty hard to bend a flywheel....but on the other hand you did bottom out enough to rip a huge hole i the bellhousing of your tranny and leave some nice dents in your header...

 

dam that sucks, i'm you're very lucky you can still drive it.
You must of hit it pretty dam hard to break the tranny in half.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by b16a ferio &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">If you can find the piece you broke off, JB Weld that bitch back together For $5 you can get some JB Weld and I guarantee it will hold it on there As for the flywheel, why do you think it's bent? I personally think it would be pretty hard to bend a flywheel....but on the other hand you did bottom out enough to rip a huge hole i the bellhousing of your tranny and leave some nice dents in your header...</TD></TR></TABLE>

I wish i could find the pieces, but most likely they are scattered everywhere. I was thinking of getting a header to replace the stock JDM header and getting a thick steel plate and place it underneath the hole and to protect the header.

 

Holy ****, thats insane. I've blown holes in trannies before, but never from bottoming out. Hopefully none of those peices flew up into the housing. Chunks of metal flying around will go straight through the other housing if hit in the right spot and really mess some stuff up. I'll see if I can find you a spare clutch housing for you. I know a buddy of mine has a spare tranny somewhere.

 

what you could do is take a pices of sheet aluminum start on one end pop rivit. and as you go down it hit the sheet to form it then pop rivit it agan go all the way down, when your done with it hit it with some permatex, all you want to do is keep it dry in there.

 

not much else...make sure you inspect the damage to the flywheel as it can do much more damage then you see. bellhousing from honda is about $250-350 depending on the application

 

2 words. NEEDS ONE.
you can get the case halves. they arent cheap.

 

i'd call the city and raise caine about it. get them to replace it. they should let potholse get that damn big anyway

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by snail &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">i'd call the city and raise caine about it. get them to replace it. they should let potholse get that damn big anyway</TD></TR></TABLE>

I thought about doing that but I figured since its a Honda and I'm a young male that they will give me the " your car was to low or you were going to fast" or some bullshit like that.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by fastwanabe &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">

I thought about doing that but I figured since its a Honda and I'm a young male that they will give me the " your car was to low or you were going to fast" or some bullshit like that.</TD></TR></TABLE>

thats still one hell of a pothole to do that even to a lowered car or one speeding.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by lsvinny &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">what you could do is take a pices of sheet aluminum start on one end pop rivit. and as you go down it hit the sheet to form it then pop rivit it agan go all the way down, when your done with it hit it with some permatex, all you want to do is keep it dry in there.</TD></TR></TABLE>
I like your idea I might just do that... thanks

 

But make sure its aluminum, tin and aluminum don`t mix.

 

Dang man!!! thats crazy....Id just look into a new tranny if it was me!

 

bump.

 

in another post he jb welded some metal over the tranny and new metal over the headers, look for it.

 

I know but one dude took props for the fix, no big thing.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by lsvinny &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I know but one dude took props for the fix, no big thing.</TD></TR></TABLE>

actually the guy that said the JB weld is right he did suggest it and someone else gave me the idea of pop rivit the piece on. So I combined both their ideas.

 

right i said to permatex it.
oh ya hell of a job looks good.