I rolled down all windows (2) and pulled off at next exit. A horrible noise was coming from tranny while I was slowing down. I checked it out and found this
Tranny was literally falling apart, rear seal gone and aluminum chunks all over the place!. So I turned around and headed back home. At 45mph a bad vibration could be felt so I limped her home at 40 and did just fine.
Got home and in 2 hours had tranny pulled to get a better look.
Front ujoint right behind flange gave out
and took 4 spd asain with it!This actually happened for a good reason!! Better now than on the way to cAndy. Last year clutch this year tranny!!
I have time to put this baby in before caNdy still
dogleg from early 200sx
.So this will actually be a tranny swap thread. I have a 1 piece driveline that I want to use. I have done prelimanary measurements and it looks like it will need to be lengthened aboot 2-3 inches. (Thats what my wife always tells me too!!)
I am going to put dogleg in then measure to have tranny mount cut and welded back together. Then I will measure for driveline as well. If I can't get driveline done in time I may go with a 620 front half. I just really want to get rid of carrier bearing!
I will be using fork and throwout bearing and collar from the original 521 tranny.
I hope this will help some of the 521 guys that are looking to do this swap
.I prolly won't put dogleg in untill next weekend. (Hate my job
