Just came back from the shop...

[Boostymofo]

I took my car to the guy that I had rebuild the tranny (about 10K miles ago) for what i thought was a problem with the rear end. It's this terrible grinding sound when in Drive (Neutral makes no noise).

It turns out that the problem is actually with the transmission...he believes it to be the planetary gear and wants $600 to fix it ($250 if i drop the tranny myself).

I asked him what could cause it to go bad so soon, seeing as how I just had it rebuilt. He blamed Shift Kit and the 200R4 itself, saying that it was built weak and cannot handle any real power. The car had 200,000 HARD miles on the original transmission when I bought it, so I know it can handle more than the occasional weekend race at 14 PSI. I am not putting much power at all to the wheels, so I'm having trouble blaming the 200R4 itself? Should I find a new tranny guy? Does anyone have ANY advice ?

I cannot handle rebuilding this tranny every 10,000 miles...this car is killing me.

-David

 

[lost2a6]

When a trans is rebuilt, most people only replace the seals, clutches, and steals, and ocassionally the bushings. So therefore the planatery gear sets have over 200,000 miles on them. Nothing lasts forever. A hard shifting trans is easier on clutches, but it's harder on hard parts, such as planatery gear sets, U- joints etc.
Steve

 

[Boostymofo]

Got my car back yesterday!
I took it to a different shop and he showed me what cause the planetary to go bad...Aparently, the guy that rebuilt it last time, put the Thrust Bearing in upside-down. It grinded the **** out of all the internals.

I'm gonna take the old parts to him and show him what the problem was, so he doesn't let it happen again.

-David