Another fun weekend... My tranny went BOOM!!! :::PICS:::
 

Last thursday I decided to drive up to the street races even though my tranny was grinding pretty bad and making whining noises (I missed a shift a month ago and the tranny has been going down hill ever since). Before I left I had a feeling my tranny wasn't going to make it, but I still went. Jeff had another Z6 tranny, so I thought if the tranny goes I can always buy that one. I get up there to the meeting spot and maybe 10 minutes later Jeff and I decide to race. I really wanted to race Jeff again too. We do some big fatty burnouts and then line up. I launch and go through first gear and shift into second... BOOM! :'( Yeah I guess I missed second gear pretty bad or it just didn't want to go in. I broke an axle a few weeks ago, but it didn't sound like that, I knew something was broke inside my tranny. Everybody thought it was my diff, but I didn't think it could be since that Quaife is the strongest part on my whole car.

I pulled over and the thing wouldn't even roll and it kept locking up. I just parked it for now and got a ride with somebody else and tried thinking of what to do. Luckily I have a friend like Jeff and he said he would help me out seeing as I was 100 miles from home. I had the car towed to Jeff's house and we were going to do the tranny after he got off work the next day. Well since I had Mary with me and she needed to get home, the plan was to drive Jeff's 77 Civic back to my house that night and then drive back to Jeff's the next day (300 mile round trip). I was bored so I took a few pictures of the trip back to Jeff's house the next day.

Here it is the 77 Civic. Jeff showed me how to start thing thing (manual choke) and I headed out. With the springs cut it was a very ruff ride and everytime you hit a bump the whole thing would shake. :-X I was able to get going the speed limit though so that was good. I don't think I have never stayed in the slow lane for a whole trip before, until this day lol.

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Got to have the HMT sticker.

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I couldn't get the damn radio to work though. Mary had it working on the ride to Longview, but I wasn't paying attention on how to get it to work. I guess yo just have to wiggle it around and hit it for a while.

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This was about the normal crusing speed. I just kept her right around 69 mph the whole time. I didn't want to push it too hard.

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Me being addicted to racing I couldn't help but race a few people. This guy towing a trailer got me pretty good though.

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This old guy in a camper didn't have a chance. I was unsure if I should actually try to pass anybody, but I beat him pretty bad. The old guy defintely felt the power of the "Orange Crush". ;D

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Now this guy was defintely hauling ass. He was even in the fast lane. He smoked me preatty bad.

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I saw this guy a ways ahead and made sure we were ona hill before I raced him. Yeah he didn't really stand a chance either. I got up next to him and took the picture then he also felt the power of the "Orange Crush".

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This big ass bus is defintely a lot quicker than it looks. He tried passing me a few times, but I wouldn't let him. Finally he got pissed and flew by me in the fast lane.

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So I get back to Jeff's and were about a mile from his work. We didn't have the dolly so we had to town my car in the molester van. There was a problem though. My front wheels kept locking up so there really wasn't anyway to get towed. I wasn't paying for another tow truck so Jeff had a great idea! :D Whatever I broke inside the tranny was already toast so he gets in the car and puts it in first gear, revs the engine to 7,000 rpms and drops the clutch. After a little bit the loud noises went away and he did this in all the gears until he was able to change gears from 1st to 5th without the clutch while the car was running. Yeah it didn't have any locking problems after that lol. We get it to his work and after dropping the tranny this is was we find.

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That's the ring gear with a few teeth missing.

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Here is another shot of the ring gear and the final drive gear in the back.

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Another ring gear shot.

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Here is a close up of Jeff's great idea on how to get it towed without the wheels locking up. That's the final drive and there are supposed to be teeth on that lol.

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Jff cleaning my Quaife LSD. I decided not to put it back in just incase there were metal shavings inside it. I also needed new bearings so I would just have to take it out again pretty soon anyways. I wanted to call Quaife first and see if I should have it checked out before putting it in... didn't want to void the lifetime warranty.

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Jeff got a little hungry so he decided to have a snack.

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This was the culprit. That's the shifter fork and that little chunk must have broke off and got wedged in the ring gear ------- it all up. Well the real problem was my dumbass shifting, but this was what broke. 92-95 EX tranny's have aluminum shifter forks, so I am going to be looking for a 96-00 EX tranny now... steel shifter forks. 8)

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So what have we learned today? Smooth shifting is good and if the car doesn't want to go into gear please don't force it or this will happen. I was actually out today practicing my new "slow shifting" techique and I am getting pretty good at it. What do Jeff and I think about my tranny though? This pretty much sums it all up.

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Re:Another fun weekend... My tranny went BOOM!!! :::PICS:::
 

Great Post Pat.. Just glad everything is ok. Order those bearings from the dealer and we'll put that lsd back in, because I know your hating the 1wheel peal ;)

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wow that was a great bed time story now i can go to bed and count some sheep!

Sorry to hear you had to embark on this long journey due to your funky shifting. however you know have one more story to add to a long list that im sure you have accumilated ( did i spell that correctly?) over the years.

Hope you LSD is still in good condition....

p.s.

tranny problems suck!

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WOW sorry to hear man :( First the axle now this. Least it's not the engine!!!! :P

haha GL with it! Glad your back on the road.

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If you read your warranty for the quaife carefully, in order for them to warranty the diff, you have to send them the whole trans and they inspect it.


damn nice Civic, know your roots ;)

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My buddy sent his Quaife LSD back 2 times to get new ones, not once did he ever send the tranny. They are pretty cool. The only problems he had was that the things would get locked up internally.

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sounds like you had fun pat. good luck with the next tranny.

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Damn, I love pics. ;) Sucks about the tranny, but I guess that's one of the things that falls under the "---- happens" rule. :-\

Man, Jeff does seem to be a good friend. All this time I thought he was just a know it all douche bag. hahahahahaha ;D

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Another solid write up Pat. Lovin the freeway Orange Crush shots.

Sucks about the tranny, but you'll find that its gets easier every time you break someting. ;)

Nice job on the shifter fork/ring gear too, go big or go home huh?

Man, I have no excuse for not driving down for some racing. 300m round trip, holy ----.

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Yeah I always end up learning things the hard way no matter what I am doing. It was a good learning experiance though and I defintely fuckered my tranny up good. It was actually a 600 mile trip if you count driving up twice and back twice. The next good racing meet you will defintely have to come down Dave.

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Jeff's da man

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Glad the civic made it to and from longview for ya Pat, sorry to hear about your tranny though :'( You kinda knew it was done anyway, it just sucks cuz you always seem to break up here when your so far from home. Atleast you know that between Jeff and I we have a few extra cars and your always welcome to the bullet anytime! Good Luck :-*

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Ahh, I woulda cried if it were my car.

Glad you made it Pat. Always good seeing Mary too :) She kept me awake, lol

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Pat, that was a beautiful post. some ppl should learn about making those kinds ;)

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wow pat, thats sick ---- man. Having blown trannies away from home myself... good for you jeff was there, that was really cool of him. And damn you must have been shifting hard

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When did you blow up your tranny????

you fucked it up good!!

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damn........i have a tranny that looks just like that one inside of it....needless to say, it doesnt work. nice write up man-adam

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damn bbka. you raced everything on the road on your way back. the orange-crush oowwnnzz

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i would kill to have that civic!!! put a weber on it!!!

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---- This Mary We're DONE! >:(

and before you guy flame me!

YES I WAS HER BOYFRIEND!!

this song comes to mind "The Eagles - Lying Eyes" comes to mind!!

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The orange crush is going to have a little more than a weber ;)

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---- thats nasty. haha that ---- broke. i never really had any tranny problems. maybe its my driving skills ::). hahaha. i broke my diff. on my ls tranny a while back. it sucked.

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Go away. You're a ------- homo. Nobody cares. You're a pathetic loser and I hope you will consider suicide as an option. Death isn't that bad. Just do it.

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Man, what a cry baby... Ya Mary only likes guys with Turbo coupes, not NA hatchbacks.. get a HMT and you'll be back in the game no problem!

ROFL!!! ;D

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Dude!Grow some ------- balls you ------- looser!!



Thats sucks pat.Well at least you've got another tranny to blow up now :P

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DAMN that's all i gotta say..

thats fucked up

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---- you guys im out.. please BAN my IP so i cant even be tempted to check this ------- site and same goes for draglab..

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Awe, poor little boy got his feelings hurt. :'( There there, everything is gonna be aight. :-*
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Re:Another fun weekend... My tranny went BOOM!!! :::PICS:::
 

Woah, is this guy for real? lol. If he's serious about being banned, can I be the one to push "the big red button"? (I always thought it would be fun) :-\ :D

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is he really mary`s bf ???? ???

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note the use of !s for reasons other than sarcasm, this indicates he left mary for a guy.

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Who give a ----, this isnt heartbroken.com, someone ban his ------- ass and stop the bullshit

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anyways, about that tranny, yay for turbo.

were the 90-91 b16 trannies having the aluminum fork piece of ----? I probably broke all 3 of mine if that's the case.

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Well I called Quaife today and told them what happened. I just told the dude I didn't want to reinstall the diff just incase it was fuckered up or had metal shavings inside it. He basically told me those things are bullet proof and that people with high horsepower hondas blow tranny's every other day and just reinstall them without problems. He said I could send it back to have it checked out, but it will probably be fine. I decided that's good enough for me since it has a lifetime warranty anyways. Now I just need to find a Y8 tranny (steel shifter forks) so the same thing doesn't happenen again. I will keep this other Z6 tranny in my trunk just in case lol.

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BWahhh hahhha

Get over it Mary aint the last hope for reprocreating mankind. This one is over, go get anouther one. In the meantime what's Mary's phone #?

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lol, thats the attitude Pat.

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Seriously guys that is enough. I don't want to see anymore posts having to do with Mary in my thread. If you have some smart ass comment that you just have to say then keep it to yourself or IM me. Stay on topic.

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I delete two of my posts for you pat, the other one is tranny related since I want to know if my forks are aluminum or steel.

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Thanks. Not sure if yours are aluminum or steel, but b-series tranny's are a lot beefier than d-series tranny's so I am guessing you won't have that problem.

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beerbongs... that tranny your running must be the one that i was gonna buy last month for 50 bucks... but i couldn't make it out to pick it up... any grinds??

i was kinda pisst i couldn't pick it up but i guess good thing i didn't... ;)