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I had a clunck everytime I shifted on our last event, but I figured it was the exaust banging up against the floor board. I have very little clearence and both motor mounts are gone.
Last week as I was checking compression, I heard the clunck again. Now the starter could not have moved the whole engine, so I kept investigating. Pulled the valve covers pushrods looked fine, and compression wasn't all that off. "Could it be a thrown connecting rod bearing?" I pondered... Probably not because oil pressure was fine last time the engine ran. So, I decided to pull the motor (I was planning on playing with the cam anyway). I take off the starter to access the flexplate/torque converter bolts...... SUPPRISE! One bolt is sheared off and other two are almost compleetly backed out.
So here goes the story of my transmission going a few months back----> Tranny died.. I pulled it... got it rebuilt.. tranny shop left out a few slightly important pieces... rebuilt trant only has 2nd and reverse... I pulled tranny again... shop fixed it again.... I had shop install it since it was their fault I had to pull it twice...
So it looks like they forgot to tighten the flexplate bolts... duh
On the bright side I found the banging.

My other car: Tranny died a month ago... took it to different tranny shop... fixed the tranny and created a coolant leak.. I fixed the coolant leak... tranny died again after 5 days of use... took it back to tranny shop.. fixed it again, created new coolant leak... they claimed they are not responsible for the coolant leak since the cooling system is not part of the transmission (even though they have to disconect the heater pipes to remove the tranny, Plus they stated that the tranny died because it overheated, and on the bill it clearly states that they are not responsible for overheated transmissions, but they did rebuild it under warantee as a FAVOR.

So this is why I WILL NEVER EVER TAKE ANY CAR TO A MECHANIC EVER AGAIN!!! I have been working on cars since I was 14. I do pretty much everything, except transmissions, rearends, tuning and machineing.
So thats it! From now on I will rebuild my on trannys too. I'll will leave the rearend to Hoopers, and since I don't own a Dyno or a Machine shop I will still out source those too.

roadracetransam View Member Profile	Jan 14 2007, 02:31 AM Post #1
Advanced Member Group: Advanced Members Posts: 689 Joined: 8-May 06 From: Charlotte, NC Member No.: 1,201	I had a clunck everytime I shifted on our last event, but I figured it was the exaust banging up against the floor board. I have very little clearence and both motor mounts are gone. Last week as I was checking compression, I heard the clunck again. Now the starter could not have moved the whole engine, so I kept investigating. Pulled the valve covers pushrods looked fine, and compression wasn't all that off. "Could it be a thrown connecting rod bearing?" I pondered... Probably not because oil pressure was fine last time the engine ran. So, I decided to pull the motor (I was planning on playing with the cam anyway). I take off the starter to access the flexplate/torque converter bolts...... SUPPRISE! One bolt is sheared off and other two are almost compleetly backed out. So here goes the story of my transmission going a few months back----> Tranny died.. I pulled it... got it rebuilt.. tranny shop left out a few slightly important pieces... rebuilt trant only has 2nd and reverse... I pulled tranny again... shop fixed it again.... I had shop install it since it was their fault I had to pull it twice... So it looks like they forgot to tighten the flexplate bolts... duh On the bright side I found the banging. My other car: Tranny died a month ago... took it to different tranny shop... fixed the tranny and created a coolant leak.. I fixed the coolant leak... tranny died again after 5 days of use... took it back to tranny shop.. fixed it again, created new coolant leak... they claimed they are not responsible for the coolant leak since the cooling system is not part of the transmission (even though they have to disconect the heater pipes to remove the tranny, Plus they stated that the tranny died because it overheated, and on the bill it clearly states that they are not responsible for overheated transmissions, but they did rebuild it under warantee as a FAVOR. So this is why I WILL NEVER EVER TAKE ANY CAR TO A MECHANIC EVER AGAIN!!! I have been working on cars since I was 14. I do pretty much everything, except transmissions, rearends, tuning and machineing. So thats it! From now on I will rebuild my on trannys too. I'll will leave the rearend to Hoopers, and since I don't own a Dyno or a Machine shop I will still out source those too.

nape View Member Profile	Jan 14 2007, 03:50 AM Post #2
Veteran Member Group: Advanced Members Posts: 2,511 Joined: 14-November 04 From: Homer Glen, IL Member No.: 540	QUOTE (roadracetransam @ Jan 13 2007, 08:31 PM) Plus they stated that the tranny died because it overheated, and on the bill it clearly states that they are not responsible for overheated transmissions, but they did rebuild it under warantee as a FAVOR. How do you burn up a transmission in 5 days unless someone fucked up rebuilding it? After they fix the car, I would've started screaming. That's my biggest worry about my van, that the trans will go out and a shop will bend me over and service me through my wallet. After all the horror stories I've heard (and my dad went through with a 700R4 10 years ago), I'd almost rather put a used one in from a 'yard. edit: I can't read... This post has been edited by nape: Jan 14 2007, 03:51 AM