5.0calypso93lx
07-15-2007, 08:45 PM
First off, I'd like to thank everyone that helped me out with my car saturday night after it broke. You guys were a life saver!! :bigthumb :bigthumb
For those that don't know, I was at the track all day today, and something happened with my trans. I haven't pulled it apart yet to see what happened, but wanted to get some ideas before I did.
My car:
-stock motor with bolt ons
-stock rebuilt t5
-upr cable, quadrant, and fiore firewall adjuster
-hurst short shifter
So, after I got knocked out of the bracket racing, test n tune followed, and I pulled the car up to the lanes, and decided to switch lanes to get next to a buddy of mine, and thats when it happened. I went to put it in reverse, and it just FELL into gear way too easy. Thats when I realized the car wasn't moving.
I can have the car in first gear, and let go of the clutch, and it doesn't stall or do anything, driveshaft is NOT turning, its like the car is in neutral but I have it in gear.
Never had any signs of major damage before today, except what I have listed down at the bottom. Its got a stock clutch in it, that has NEVER slipped, or anything. I've never smelled clutch, etc.
Trans was rebuilt a couple months ago. My car was in the high 13's all day, so I don't think I'm at a power level where this trans would break so easy.
A couple issues I have had with the trans in the past couple weeks:
-Trans would go into gear fine at first, but after a about a half hour of driving, the trans would be very hard to get into gear. I'd go under to hood, turn the firewall adjuster counter-clockwise, and this would make the pedal release higher, but the trans would shift much better temporarily. This kept happening over and over, and kept getting harder and harder to go into gear until I would "adjust" it.
-Saturday morning, trans was still hard to go into gear, but when I was driving it, even at 2500 just cruising or at any RPM for that matter, either slightly giving it gas or letting off, it would start bucking, like I don't know how to drive a stick, but this was in every single gear, all the time(full throttle everything was fine)
-ALso noticed when I looked at the fluid, its kind of brown, but I am 101% positive that I put redline in it
Just went and pulled the shifter:
http://img2.putfile.com/main/7/19520362677.jpg
http://img2.putfile.com/main/7/19520362662.jpg
http://img2.putfile.com/main/7/19520362672.jpg
So, its gotta be clutch or trans, and now I'm praying clutch...
Does redline trans fluid always look brown?
And if I do find that the trans is messed up, the car is going to be down for a while until I can afford t56 swap.
For those that don't know, I was at the track all day today, and something happened with my trans. I haven't pulled it apart yet to see what happened, but wanted to get some ideas before I did.
My car:
-stock motor with bolt ons
-stock rebuilt t5
-upr cable, quadrant, and fiore firewall adjuster
-hurst short shifter
So, after I got knocked out of the bracket racing, test n tune followed, and I pulled the car up to the lanes, and decided to switch lanes to get next to a buddy of mine, and thats when it happened. I went to put it in reverse, and it just FELL into gear way too easy. Thats when I realized the car wasn't moving.
I can have the car in first gear, and let go of the clutch, and it doesn't stall or do anything, driveshaft is NOT turning, its like the car is in neutral but I have it in gear.
Never had any signs of major damage before today, except what I have listed down at the bottom. Its got a stock clutch in it, that has NEVER slipped, or anything. I've never smelled clutch, etc.
Trans was rebuilt a couple months ago. My car was in the high 13's all day, so I don't think I'm at a power level where this trans would break so easy.
A couple issues I have had with the trans in the past couple weeks:
-Trans would go into gear fine at first, but after a about a half hour of driving, the trans would be very hard to get into gear. I'd go under to hood, turn the firewall adjuster counter-clockwise, and this would make the pedal release higher, but the trans would shift much better temporarily. This kept happening over and over, and kept getting harder and harder to go into gear until I would "adjust" it.
-Saturday morning, trans was still hard to go into gear, but when I was driving it, even at 2500 just cruising or at any RPM for that matter, either slightly giving it gas or letting off, it would start bucking, like I don't know how to drive a stick, but this was in every single gear, all the time(full throttle everything was fine)
-ALso noticed when I looked at the fluid, its kind of brown, but I am 101% positive that I put redline in it
Just went and pulled the shifter:
http://img2.putfile.com/main/7/19520362677.jpg
http://img2.putfile.com/main/7/19520362662.jpg
http://img2.putfile.com/main/7/19520362672.jpg
So, its gotta be clutch or trans, and now I'm praying clutch...
Does redline trans fluid always look brown?
And if I do find that the trans is messed up, the car is going to be down for a while until I can afford t56 swap.