My Tranny Teardown

[sleepydsm]

Originally Posted by Shane55113

props to kevin, good explination of the failure, i could actually understand what was hapening, u should let me and dave come take a look at your progress so we can learn a thing or two.

Hey yeah I've been wondering what happened to you guys! You should stop by sometime, although my tranny is at my work in pieces

[tim]

I have been thinking about taking apart my tranny to replace the synchros as kind of a bandaid til I can get it completely rebuilt.

I have never had a DSM tranny apart before though and dont really know what all would need to be done. Maybe someday. The 2nd gear grind really pisses me off though.

[Pimpin Dsmstyle]

Good job tearing it apart. Most people would take off the front case and go " Holy shit, where are the bolts at !? " So props to you, for a successful teardown. Now just hope you get everything put back exactly as it was supposed to be placed or you can plan on tearing it down again :P

[Pimpin Dsmstyle]

Originally Posted by tim

I have been thinking about taking apart my tranny to replace the synchros as kind of a bandaid til I can get it completely rebuilt.

I have never had a DSM tranny apart before though and dont really know what all would need to be done. Maybe someday. The 2nd gear grind really pisses me off though.

If that is what you think, pay someone to do it because I can almost promise you it won't go that smoothly. To replace your synchros and not fix your problem would simply be a waste of time and money. If you are into spending money, buy some nice gear lube ( royal purple 75 90 I think). That might smooth out your grinds a little depending on how severe it is. Otherwise just suck it up and deal with the grinds.

[tim]

Originally Posted by Pimpin Dsmstyle

If that is what you think, pay someone to do it because I can almost promise you it won't go that smoothly. To replace your synchros and not fix your problem would simply be a waste of time and money. If you are into spending money, buy some nice gear lube ( royal purple 75 90 I think). That might smooth out your grinds a little depending on how severe it is. Otherwise just suck it up and deal with the grinds.

I have tried using quality gear lube and it didnt help. Like I said, I havent taken it apart because I dont know how. There could be a lot wrong with it and I wouldnt even know til I got it apart.

The reason I think it might be something simple is because the car is still 100% stock with about 80k miles on it. It was adult driven and used as nothing more than a daily driver. The previous owner wasnt out raging on it.

But again, I know nothing about a DSM tranny so that is why I havent done anything with it.

[Shane55113]

Originally Posted by sleepydsm

Hey yeah I've been wondering what happened to you guys! You should stop by sometime, although my tranny is at my work in pieces

We have been around, i had a 240 for a little bit but sold it cuz it was a $-pit, picked up my 1g thru dsmtalk. Dave has torn his galant to pieces about 3 times fixing things, he needs a fwd tranny to get it running. John and derek rarely do anything anymore cept go to school, play halo and get drunk. John goes to the U of M and derek goes to century. I'm intrested in your setup, gime a call i'll pm you my # and we can meet up some time.

[1slowdsm]

Originally Posted by Shane55113

John goes to the U of M and derek goes to century.

LOL. Funny stuff. A bunch of people that attend the UofM and Century just got busted for alcohol in a dorm room party. Oh well..anyway...back on topic. I'm still in the process of planning my very own tranny tear down. Hope all turns out well for me. Not going to happen for another couple of months or so...