Re: ANOTHER ONE bites the dust!

[Chris Hanlon <cwhanlon@eai.com>]

Darin,

Are you sure it is the tranny?  Does the whine occur in every gear?
Most trannies I've seen fail, lock out a particular gear.  Usually
fifth gear because of the lower ratio causes the gears to pull apart.
Thus putting more wear on the tranny, the higher ratios compress the
gears (not drive gears, gears as in metal toothed gears).  Also the
tranny has to be held in to gear for the lower ones (it'll pop out
otherwise).

The whine could be the center differential.  Or you could simply be
low on tranny fluid due to seal leaks.

Anyway, you have a couple of options.  Sell the car to an unsuspecting
buyer (question of morality).  Keep driving the car until the tranny
completely fails, then with the money you've been saving buy a new one.
If your not locked out of any gears, the tranny could last a *long* time
before you need a new one.

Oh, I have an '83 suburban for sale!  A little rusty, but otherwise runs
fine.  2WD, 1/2 ton, king of the road...asking a couple grand.  I need
to sell it because I'm leaving Iowa!!!

Hope things look up!

chris



Darin Nederhoff wrote:
> 
> If you don't like bad news, close your eyes and hit delete NOW....
> 
> Well, it has not been a good day for me and my wonderful (*cough*) Coupe quattro.
> I took my car up to Anderson Motorsport in Chanhassen, MN to have them investigate
> a whining noise from the driveline....  I wanted to have them look into it since I
> was just about to go ahead and order all my suspension stuff (H&R, Bilsteins etc)
> and wanted to know what was with the whine.  I was figuring that my center
> driveshaft bearing was kaput and I could live with having that rebuilt.  No such
> luck!  My transmission is in more trouble than Mr. Clinton at congressional
> impeachment meeting!  DOH!  Mr. Royal, pass me a beer...  nahh, better go straight
> to the hard stuff!  :-(
> 
> SOooooo....  the total "fix" is looking like $3,600.  (Rebuilt Audi tranny, new
> clutch kit,  flywheel lightening, and labor.)
> At this point I really don't know what I'm going to do...  coming up with that
> much cash will really put me in dire straits.  What do you guys think I should
> do?  Fix it?  Find a bridge, push the car over and walk away?  Trade it for
> another Coupe (ie: http://www.karquattro.com/coupes/0060.html ) ?  Get out of the
> ring or torture club and get a friggen Honda!?
> 
> I'm open to suggestions at this point...   FWIW, my current CQ has 105k on the
> clock, TAP chip, K&N cone, Scorpion exhaust, about 2k worth of audio upgrades, new
> brake calipers in the rear, newer pads & rotors all around, timing belt service 2
> months ago, tranny *cough*, and diff fluids not long ago, etc etc....       I'm in
> so deep I almost feel like I have to keep it, but I'm not sure I can afford to.
> Decisions decisions....    anyone have an Accord for sale?  ;-)
> 
> Any leads on GOOD used transmissions?
> 
> Give me your thoughts people...  I sure as h#ll can't seem to think straight at
> the moment...
> 
> Darin
> 
> '90 CQ20V - Tranny by Hyundai!  ;-)