Okay, lots of problems, evidently. First off its a 95 Eclipse RS, engines from a 97 Avenger, very light mods. 6-month old OE Sachs clutch in an OE 5-speed trans with a slight leak thats suddenly become marginally worse. On to the problem...
Noticed an occasional creaking noise in the front end under braking and turning or acclerating & truning. Suddenly I've now developed a *Popping* noise under the same conditions I crawled under the car today to check the cv boots for damage, steering assy, suspension bushings and found the following: cv boots good, bushings good. Fluid inside the bellhousing but not on the clutch. Fluid leaking from the top(!) of the trans, under the battery tray. Worst of all, I cleaned away the sludge from the bottom near the trans oil drain and found tiny cracks in the metal, and one large crack (see pic at link).
Thanks for the help. Looks like your right since the problem has suddenly become self-evident. I left bits of housing and a gear or two behind in a big puddle of gear oil during a 5-minute test run. Posted a pic at the link above.
What could have caused this? I'm an aggressive driver, but not overly abusive. No racing, no neutral drops, etc. What the heck...?? :cuss
#995, "RE: You called it..." In response to Reply # 2
that looks like a spider gear from the diff to me... our diff pin is NOTORIOUS for sliding out and destroying the trans.. and it works is way out slowly until it gets far enough to do some damage as you can tell.
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#996, "RE: You called it..." In response to Reply # 3
Usually as a result of lots of wheelspin: burnouts, lots of hard lanches, lots of sliding around on wet concrete, and lack of fluid in your trans.
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#1265, "RE: You called it..." In response to Reply # 3
>that looks like a spider gear from the diff to me... our diff >pin is NOTORIOUS for sliding out and destroying the trans.. >and it works is way out slowly until it gets far enough to do >some damage as you can tell.
I have a 95 GS. Iam now on my 3rd transmission because of this same reason. Would an after market diff solve this problem? And all of my trans have had the hair line crakes in them. Is this bad!!
#1267, "RE: You called it..." In response to Reply # 6
Sure, so would diff opin safing brackets, or welding the pin in place. A Quaife would fix it, as well. SO would not doinf burnouts, or spinning tire through corners. They rarely fail due to normal use..
The "hairline cracks" you are seeing acre probably just casting marks, not really cracks. Almost all the trans cases i've seen look like this.
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#1269, "RE: You called it..." In response to Reply # 7
>Sure, so would diff opin safing brackets, or welding the pin >in place. A Quaife would fix it, as well. SO would not doinf >burnouts, or spinning tire through corners. They rarely fail >due to normal use.. > >The "hairline cracks" you are seeing acre probably just >casting marks, not really cracks. Almost all the trans cases >i've seen look like this.
Its also making a clunking noise when I take off. It's not my CV joints I checked them. And I don't think is my motor mounts I'm using energy suspension. It my just be ware in the gears.
#1273, "RE: You called it..." In response to Reply # 8
>Its also making a clunking noise when I take off. It's not my >CV joints I checked them. And I don't think is my motor >mounts I'm using energy suspension. It my just be ware in the >gears.
Check the rear motor mount bracket. Mine pulled a bolt out, and bent the bracket. it clunked like i had a bad motor mount (because it wasn't strongly attached to the trans anymore).
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#1276, "RE: You called it..." In response to Reply # 9
I checked my rear mount it's not broke but it does look bad. The engine has some movement. Today Im installing the energy suspension rear mount. I installed the front mount about a year ago, just haven't got aroung to installing the rear. Josh
#1308, "RE: You called it..." In response to Reply # 10
hmmmm... after looking at your site, i think that the motor mount (trans mount) in the last pic on the site, i think that mine might be broken.... a long while back after having the trans rebuilt i took the battery tray off and i'm not sure, i think mine was missing the top half of that, or would my trans have fallen out if that were the case? it did leak from the differential seals (axle ones)... i'm gonna go and check that now...
if mine is broken, (the aluminum part) how much do you think that will run me?
