This was very unfortunate for me, as my 2nd
transmission went bad in only 30k miles. I was cruising on the
highway, when all of a sudden I heard this loud whirrrr sound in 4th
gear. As I slowed down it started sounding like loud clicks (like
having a playing card in your bicycle spoke sound). I have opted to
remove the tranny the very next day, and was going to rebuild it.
Being that I was pressed for time and never did a DSM tranny rebuild, I
decided to travel to Conicelli in PA and pick up a brand new tranny.
Now, with a huge dent on my credit card, I am back on the road. Soon
to come pictures of what went wrong with my first tranny. ( I
suspect bearing or Viscous Coupling / Diff failure, since the night before
I went boosting with my rear brakes locked. This could have caused
an unbalance in the awd system, burning up the diff or VC)
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This is the
tranny removed from the car in my garage, on my poor aching knees and
hands :( And pics of the new tranny back in the car. Nice and
clean eh?
In the mean time, I had ordered a new turbo (FP's Green turbo) and decided to install it. I had to cap off the coolant lines from the old 20g since this turbo is only oil cooled. I also did some engine bay cleaning, tightened any bolts/clamps, redid my lower fmic pipe to fit the new turbo, and created a new 3" maf pipe.
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Green turbo pics
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Green on the
left, 20g on the right comparison pics
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Various engine
bay pics of the turbo installed. And final pic is the 3" inlet.
