oh crap.... now i got 4th gen tranny man...lol....in transmission where driver side axle goes in there is single spline....and the axle i have on driver side is double splined...so as i showed in pic...thats all it goes in no more....but car is still drivable....then i went to shop and bought the axle with ABS only and that axle had one spline but the wheel size was smaller than the axle i have ritenow....so it wouldnt fit on wheel side but in transmission side would fit....so i returned that axle and keep driving with doulble splined old axle.....now wat i m thinking is get that ABS only axle again and take the transmission side part out and put that on my old axle so it would fit on both sides like customize axle...thats wat my story is....

 

wait... whatever the OLD axle is, use one like that. If you have double splines on the old axle then that's what should be your new one. maybe you just weren't doing it right when you tried to install it?

 

no actually the new axle i bought that was A transmission i guess..and probably GXE axle with abs only thats why wheel side was smaller cuz VE have the bigger hubs or something?....so i dont have any axle rightnow only the one i have IN and been driving on it since an year now.....but i can hear some TAK TAK wen i start the car from 0 i gues its cuz it need single spline axle and i have double spline axle in there and plus i took my axle out like million times at college and put it bak and try to put all the way in but it doesnt go cuz its too long for that...

 

was the new axle you bought (in your estimate, an A tranny axle) double splined or single?

clicking just means your axle is shot. get a new one just like the one that's in there. until you take a macro shot of the splines inside the tranny, i still just simply have to call BS on it being a non-VLSD VE tranny...

 

upon looking in the FSM... if you have that big center pin then it cannot be VLSD. your car must have had a rebuilt tranny and they had no VLSD units to put in, so put in the A-style diff out of the 4th gen tranny and put in yours. ie, you got screwed over by the PO and the tranny shop. so i guess you are supposed to have the A axle..

 

yep the new axle i bought and returned had single spline....and ya i will take pic of splines inside the tranny soon....

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burhan: can you snap-n-post a picture of your engine for me please..and snap a pic of your top of your transmission/vin plate for me please..

thanks

 

he did all that here.... his VIN plate says V but he doesn't have a VLSD in his current tranny. just like my VIN plate says RE4F02A but we all know that's not what's actually under my hood...

http://forums.maxima.org/3rd-generat...l-problem.html

his diff has 1 set of splines on the driverside, a pin in the middle (open diff have it, VLSD don't) and he does have the RE4F04x trans cuz he has starter on top, pan on bottom.

 

ah, i see...I missed that thread, i was busy

My best advice for burhan is to go buy/install a vg auto axle...

 

eh... i don't think that'll fit tho. same reason you swap hubs on a VLSD swap like I did... the tip of the axle isn't the same size. so his only real option is to get a VE non-LSD axle that he found online or wherever he found it.

 

how about taking the inner joint of auto VG axle and putting on the VE inner LSD joint axle...and leave the outer joint the way it is?....( i mean customizing the axle ) thats wat my instructor told me to try ( or do it )

 

Thats what i meant to do, just swap the outer ve axle onto the vg one.

 

oh. hmm i'll be interested to see if that works. I always thought the inner spline sizes were different too... and that one would be a VG, one would be a VE VLSD, and one would be a VE non-LSD... but you never know... apparently VE injectors work in late-model GXEs so this just might work too

 

o ya....that would be VE NON-VLSD....i m going to pull my 91 VG's driver side axle and swapping that with VE's axle inner joint instead of buying a whole new VG axle. If it fits then i will jus buy new inner cv joint with boot for my VG if not then GOD KNOWS....

 

hell before you even bother swapping pieces of axles around..... just see if the VG driverside axle will fit in the hole, period. if it won't then you just saved yourself a little bit of trouble and greasyness. but there was that one you found a little bit ago... you showed a link to it, about the VE non-vlsd axle

or you could go to the JY and get a VE auto tranny and put it in and enjoy having your VLSD back....

 

I think........

Before we go any further into this axle thing, i would like to see CLEAR picture of the pin inside the axle hole of your transmission burhan. i am not yet convinced this transmission is a non vlsd trans. if you have to, borrow a decent camera from someone you know to take a clear picture with, please.

 

but you know what i'm talking about with the VLSD setup, the ring with 4 pegs, rather than a floating splined gear and the big pin holding the sidegears to the diff case in the VG trannies...

link to pics:
http://www.courtesyparts.com/maxima-...1677_1697.html

top 2 are VG (manual and auto i guess?)
bottom 2 are VE... VLSD on top, non-VLSD on bottom.

 

yes cape, i know what this is all about...i know the differences in the tranny setups...i want to see picture proof that burhan's transmission is indeed non vlsd. I am simply not yet convinced that this is a non vlsd transmission, the pictures in the other thread show a VE auto transmission, he has a VE30DE engine, he has a "V" in his vin trans code, all this info points to him having a vlsd transmission. These axles can be a pain to get in back in all the way, trust me i know just "pushing like a bull" as he stated is sometimes not enough to get these axles back in, you almost always have to take them back out and turn the axle around a few times to get it to seat back in the transmission hole all the way(he stated he didn't do this in the other thread), the circle clip in the end of the axle shaft gets bound up during re installation of the axle. If these axles are not seated correctly due to the circlip binding, they look exactly like the pictures he posted of his axle.

And lets face it, nothing personal against burhan but he doesn't seem to be very mechanically inclined, or is very young and just learning about car repair, or both. our goal is the same here dude, I want to help the guy fix his axle issue same as you do, but i need the correct info in front of me before i can help him out correctly, hence the request for clear pictures of a the axle hole to confirm the presence of a pinion mate shaft= a non vlsd transmission.

 

yea i had to take my entire strut off to get enough leverage to push my VLSD axle in........

but he also said his old axle had just one spline and he said he only saw one inside there too... that's mainly what i was basing that off of. but we shall see.

 

no problem guys....i will take out my axle and take a clear pic of in and out and left and right...every possible way i could i will....and ya greeny i know u guys r really passionate to help me out and i m jus an AUTO MECHANICS STUDENT...and i jus started like 5 months ago and only learned how to change brakes and how to change spark plugs and other basic stuff yet lol...but my own i know couple of things not ALOT as u guys know alot more than me cuz of the experience.....and i am not really young anymore cuz i jus turned 21

 

o ya one more thing thanks greeny to merge all the posts and can u plzz correct the spelling of the Thread's subject AXEL TO AXLE as i was in hurry and mistyped....

 

lol greeny's still old enough to be your dad.

 

lol its all gud...i wouldn't mind calling him dad either

my dad is 50 years old lol

 

..... uh... that's kinda creepy...

 

no

 

hah.

 

 

Bump, any news on the axle yet?

 

yes Greeny....i m not getting the time to open it up since my instructor keep us busy doing class stuff first....as soon i get the free time i m gonna open it up and take a pic....hopefully this Tuesday for sure....

 

does anyone know what is the exact size of WHEEL BEARING LOCK NUT? i m going to pull my VGs axle out today and its parked at home and i m gonna bring the exact size of socket from college....i think its around 27mm but i m not sure....thanks i know its a dumb Q......

 

36mm

http://www.cardomain.com/ride/748507/25

 

hey.. if you do determine that the tranny in your VE is really non-LSD and want to possibly use that VG's axle,, you can steal the wheel hub (2 bolts from strut, 3 bolts at balljoint on bottom, and then the tierod) off it and put it on your VE, that way no hybrid axles or anything need to be made. then go get a hub from the JY in your spare time to fix the GXE with

i prefer to stick a beefy flathead screwdriver into the brake rotor's vents (through the hole in the caliper) to hold the whole assembly from moving.... rather than a crowbar which is easier to have slip out of place.

 

dyam is that really 36mm? i was thinking around 28mm oh well i will bring that one then....thanks


how about ABS sensor? i mean where it connects on the wheel../are they same on vg and ve?

 

uhhhhhh... good question.... i don't have ABS, and i knocked the rings off my VE axles when i put them on soooo i really can't say for sure if it all fits the same or not. If both cars have ABS then i'd think it would all line up fine, since you'd be using the same axle and same hub from the GXE, so everything would be in the same position as it was on the other car.

 

My bet is theyre the same. Be careful in opening the ABS sensor bolt; wrong socket tools and you brake the attachin cable. Wont stand any bending.

Crowbar is what every burglar has in stock, only select have a screwdriver: yes its better.

 

finally i got the time to do it.....and ya i dont have a VE with VLSD its a VE WITHOUT VLSD...i called the auto part store and they told me they have an AXLE for 1992 NISSAN MAXIMA SE WITHOUT VLSD AND WITH ABS so i ordered that and it fitted rite in after being a lil harsh with it....now its running good HOWEVER, my ABS light came on for some reason i have no idea why it came on but i m gonna check it out tomorrow or i might have to swap outer cv joint from my old AXLE to make ABS work... oh well at least its going all the way in transmission anyways...and no more lATF leaking from dere.....heres few pics i took...

 

 

i dont think I have ever seen the maxima logo on the door before...
did you do that? looks pretty good, imo

 

yes i put that on..it looks good plus i m about to paint my car so i m gonna tell auto body guys to paint it like that with logo on so wen they done painting i will pull that logo off and the Maxima logo will be dere permanently:d

 

ok today i reseted the ABS computer and the ABS light didn't come after that....dont know why the ABS light came on at the first place anyways....