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Old 12-06-2009, 06:39 PM
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Default Another problem... This time Tranny related.

FAIL. end thread. just had to put that out there.... we shoulda bought real cars lol..

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lol what happened
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eh. ill type the story later... someone just light my car on fire already... i think we may be seeing the limits of our tranny when its Daily'd.. and dyno'd with.

i might be checking into a psych ward soon.
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damn dude i feel for you.
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wow.. tranny went kaboo? post some pics too
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its just never ending... i honestly dont think my car has run for more than 1 month without a problem occuring. for 2 years of being boosted..
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Old 12-06-2009, 06:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Ace83
wow.. tranny went kaboo? post some pics too

ok.. heres the story of what happened

i was cruising in 5th and all the sudden it just revved up.. i was like wtf? so i let off the gas and then pressed it again and it drove for like 10 feet but then revved up again! i soon found out every gear did this! we thought an axle could have popped out but they both look fine and i pulled and shook them and they didnt move! then i see tranny fluid squirted all over the midsection chassis and back down the exhaust... i mean theres just no way all my gears lost teeth right? this morning i went under the car and saw that my passenger axle was dripping fluid.. the car goes into all gears and will move if i slip the clutch.. so my tranny lost fluid.. im guessing it overheated and maybe the diff is what broke? but i cant be certain it lost all the fluid from the passenger axle. what would make the fluid just randomly start squirting out? and all gears rev out? ugh.. probably just need a whole new tranny at this point.
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where is the fluid exactly coming out from? where you boosting when it happened
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oh dang
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no wasnt boosting.. i was cruising on the highway in 5th going like 70 and all the sudden it revved out.. i mean i was getting on it a little before on the street roads but not on the highway which i was on for about 10-15 minutes before that happened.. i couldnt tell u where its coming from exactly but i did see it leaking out of passenger axle a little.. it could be coming from somewhere else to.. there was a point where i thought i heard i hit a rock or something aswell in the city streets. that could or could not of had anything to do with it.
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This seems more of fail on your part. Looking at your mods, you pretty much did nothing for your transmission to handle all that power.
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this thread is going to get epic
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Originally Posted by Air2TheThrown
This seems more of fail on your part. Looking at your mods, you pretty much did nothing for your transmission to handle all that power.

Our trannys are supposed to be good for 500+whp stock. Justin is 600+ and hasnt reported a tranny issue. Now ptuning has 500whp and has had issues but they are tracking there car. my car hasnt seen the track. ive never powershifted or double clutched or anything.. just simple pulls and shifting.. never grinded a gear either.

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Wow sry Chad!
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take that back.. just found out justin is on his 3rd tranny lol i think ima just replace the whole tranny.. really dying to open this one up and find out what the hell happened..
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^^I was about to say that dude blew his tranny up several times but not just cruising.
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ya thats the weird part..
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have your tranny rebuilt its cheaper... thats why i rebuilt my tranny months ago.. lol i knew the tc tranny wouldnt hold over 600 when i cracked it the splines are to small for high power.

U should look into cryo treatments and having it rebuilt and some of the gears swapped out with mr2 and xrs gears. AND NO I WILL NO SELL YOU MY TRANNY LMAO... i love it lol
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uh no... i can find a tranny for 250
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fine thats great but how many trannys are you gona go through in the long run?
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