My Recently Blown Up Shep Stage 3
 

Let pictures do the talking

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Those two gears have a bunch of broken teeth. Is that fourth gear?

Think the teeth sheared off, got stuck behind the ring gear and blew out the case there?

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That is shitty. Shep going to do anything for you about it?

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And you say I'm hard on transmissions...

Edit, I thought you had a stage 4 trans... or is this another trans you broke already?

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No, this is one I bought new like 3 years ago, has about 15,000 miles on it. Maybe 5,000 miles of 400ish whp. I will be emailing/calling them just to see what they say.

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WOW that's crazy. How does that happen? Launching it to much or daily gear grinding. I really would like to know what my tranny looks like inside.

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oh ok, so this is the old one you blew up.

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too much torque lol. yours looks like that, except with all the teeth still there.

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Wow, that's pretty crazy. I wonder what shep will do for you.

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hopefully they will, thats nuts

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You can see some of the teeth are discolored. If that was due to heat wow. When i didnt know what i was doing, sharpening a drill bit in school. It had those exact same color spots as those teeth lol

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Was this during normal driving, NLTS'ing or just a hard pull in 3rd/4th?

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ouch. hope everything goes well for you man.

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They are not discolored. No signs of heat, no blueing, nothing. They just snapped off or something got in there.

I remember I heard a weird noise as I came to a stop, clutch in. Like a quick grinding. Car drove fine for a bit after but stated making a weird noise. I thought it was engine. So my solution? Took off from a light and try to go into fourth, that terrible loud grinding noise, like a gear trying to mesh with a fast spinning gear and not working. I babied it, as I was like a mile away from home, and everything was working as normal except 4th.

Then the next morning I went to inspect and huge puddle of gear lube under the car, and I saw broken case. Then I said, welp, there goes $2000.... :(

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First picture looks like wolverine took a slap at it. Pretty cool looking though. Sucks about the tranny.

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That's really f*cked up then if it was just normal driving and all that carnage happened. I hope Shep will do something for you in this case.

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How much power?
Fluid?
U drive it like your company car?

Looking for a replacement?

Sorry to hear you are having terrible luck with these things.

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That is fourth gear, which is the most prone for breaking. It is because nobody ever tromps on it in 5th, so fourth gear gets the most load behind it.

It appears it chipped off, then its teeth got behind your front differential and cut your tranny.

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Ouch. That's a lot of money right there. Sorry to hear :( Welcome to the club of broken transmissions. haha

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I've heard about that, and guessed that happened here. But I thought that only happened to higher hp/tq cars?

And yes, I beat on this thing sometimes.

Used Penzoil Syncromesh. I have tried the redline cocktail and didn't like it.

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haha, I've been there a few times before ;)