I launched and it wasn't happy. I should have the trans out in the next few days. It's just so damn hot that I'm only going to work on it in the early morning. We think that it broke first gear. This is a TRE trans by the way. I'll post pics when we get it part. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/banghead.gif
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Trans broke!!!!!!
- Thread starter14bCrazy
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The_Big_Weave
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did you get the evo 3 first when you had it rebuilt, how many miles?
Terry Posten
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The EVO 3 first must be mated to the EVO 3 input shaft. That is about a $500 upgrade.
I bet you will find something like this.
I bet you will find something like this.
That's what I'm thinking. She came out of the hole like crazy then bang!!! The good thing is that it happened in the parking lot at work. Which is 3 miles from my house. It could have happened an hour away at the track. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/dunno.gif
brisvr4
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I know this tune well!
I fixed mine with a Dsm 1st gear and input shaft, it's a bit shorter than the Evo3 gear but gets me out of the hole faster.
I fixed mine with a Dsm 1st gear and input shaft, it's a bit shorter than the Evo3 gear but gets me out of the hole faster.
I got it apart and found the cause. The trans bolts must have come loose and let it move. One of the dowl pins was sheared off and it broke off on of the tabs where it bolts to the block. The other thing it did was break off the sleeve on the bell housing where the input shaft goes in. We are going to have to tig weld the tab back on the block and get another bell housing. Billy is going to take the trans apart but we think the internals are fine. So I have two questions has anybody ever had that sleeve break off of the bell housing? Has anybody ever tried to welds onto a block like that?
I had my block welded similarly to that just this spring. Guy did an excellent job.
Haven't run it at all yet though.
Haven't run it at all yet though.
Quoting 14bCrazy:
I got it apart and found the cause. The trans bolts must have come loose and let it move. One of the dowl pins was sheared off and it broke off on of the tabs where it bolts to the block. The other thing it did was break off the sleeve on the bell housing where the input shaft goes in. We are going to have to tig weld the tab back on the block and get another bell housing. Billy is going to take the trans apart but we think the internals are fine. So I have two questions has anybody ever had that sleeve break off of the bell housing? Has anybody ever tried to welds onto a block like that?
I had a similar issue using an evo box on my vr4, only the top two bolt holes and the dowel pins line up (and the bolt underneath from the engine side, but I missed that one!), when launching the car it cracked the bell housing just below each of the top bolts - I never closely examined the rest of the gearbox, but I recall the clutch plate was bent. I ended up selling the box to a mate for parts and dropped another vr4 box into it.
I got it apart and found the cause. The trans bolts must have come loose and let it move. One of the dowl pins was sheared off and it broke off on of the tabs where it bolts to the block. The other thing it did was break off the sleeve on the bell housing where the input shaft goes in. We are going to have to tig weld the tab back on the block and get another bell housing. Billy is going to take the trans apart but we think the internals are fine. So I have two questions has anybody ever had that sleeve break off of the bell housing? Has anybody ever tried to welds onto a block like that?
I had a similar issue using an evo box on my vr4, only the top two bolt holes and the dowel pins line up (and the bolt underneath from the engine side, but I missed that one!), when launching the car it cracked the bell housing just below each of the top bolts - I never closely examined the rest of the gearbox, but I recall the clutch plate was bent. I ended up selling the box to a mate for parts and dropped another vr4 box into it.
