Rest in Pieces 3rd gear

[russiankid]

Any update?

 

[MeltedSolid]

The car is currently in the shop with the transmission out

 

[swcrow]

This was my third gear from my stage 3 WRX.... Note only one gear halfway intact. It's now my desk ornament

Boost to 3rd gear..."you are outmatched"

are you getting helical or straight cut gears?

 

[MeltedSolid]

I really wanted to take my transmission apart to look at 3rd gear. I wanted to see if it was just the teeth sheared off like that or if it was the entire gear in pieces, but I ran out of time and had to take it to the metal recycling in one piece. It would be a good trophy to have.

 

[swcrow]

If you had metal pieces rattling like popcorn, like I did, you'll probably want to replace (after inspection of course) 2,3 and 5 and bearings.

 

[MeltedSolid]

Oh, 6 speed transmission is already in. There's been a few things happening since the 5 speed broke .

 

[swcrow]

Oh, 6 speed transmission is already in. There's been a few things happening since the 5 speed broke .

lol.nice.

 

[Sparky589]

We did throw a mk6 clutch pack onto the car when doing the swap. Least as far as I could tell everything mounted up perfectly, but beyond that I'm pretty much stumped on what might be causing this.

 

[MeltedSolid]

Whelp, the word is in from the shop. The pressure plate bolts were coming loose. Maybe when whoever else is doing this, make sure to use extra locktite on those bolts, they are the worst things possible to come loose in terms of labor, especially when you need to pay for that labor... I'm not exactly sure how that makes it so the pressure plate won't fully compress, but maybe it got slightly off axis or something so it wasn't compressing all of the pressure plate springs equally. Anyways I should be driving tomorrow, and for everyone planning to do the swap, I can confirm that the list I made a few pages back is accurate and complete.

 

[russiankid]

If I remember correctly, the PP bolts I used came with blue loctite on them, did yours not?

 

[MeltedSolid]

They did, but I had to take the clutch back off the first time I put it on because I forgot to put the transmission plate on under it. I guess I must have wiped off all of the included locktite by doing that, and that was enough to cause them to come loose.

 

[russiankid]

They did, but I had to take the clutch back off the first time I put it on because I forgot to put the transmission plate on under it. I guess I must have wiped off all of the included locktite by doing that, and that was enough to cause them to come loose.

I believe the loctite that comes on bolts like that reacts with the friction of being screwed in and then becomes a liquid so definitely a possibility that you accidentally wiped it off.

 

[MeltedSolid]

Car is back and driving! I mixed up pressure plate and flywheel earlier, the flywheel bolts, the stretch bolts with locktite included on them, were fine. The pressure plate bolts, which have no locktite and have a very low torque spec were coming loose. The theory of the mechanic that I also probably agree with is that when seating the pressure plate, it got slightly bound up on the pressure plate studs, and so even at the correct torque spec the bolts weren't fully seated. It seems this was causing most of my vibration issues from before, and now it feels entirely vibration and clutch chatter free.

 

[russiankid]

Glad you got it squared away. I am always paranoid when installing a clutch that I triple check to make sure all the ears on the PP touch the flywheel and that the alignment tool moves in and out freely.

 

[Ironshade]

Sucks you had to lose out on money loke that, but at least problem is solved! Any news on the ecu part of the trans swap? Also hows the car feel any video rolling through the gears yet?