Well, my transmission is totally fixed now!!!

it was just bad bearings.
when it was in the shop though, i had them give me the engine mounts, i reinforced them, had an ACT street clutch installed and they replaced the CV boots (were cracked, but no damage was done luckily). i also had them fill the tranny with redline mt-90 .

now, i have had my AC compressor replaced (still hardly cools anything), hail damage fixed, all the above, put my addco rsb and courtesy fstb on. i am just waiting for my frankencar to come in now.

next up: window tint and viper 600 alarm...

 

Let's hope they changed out the shim on the bearing, if that's what hte problem was (more than likely it was, from what I've heard with the typical bearing 4th-gen 5-speed tranny problem), or that in the end, the shim and the bearing matched up as far as pre-load on the bearing.

At least that's what the guy at www.motorvate.ca has attributed to repeated failure of the bearing.

Have fun with the refreshed max

 

that's awesome, how much did all that cost?

and i JUST got a viper 600 alarm installed! I can give u a good recommendation if u live in or near New Jersey for that alarm.

 

they did measure preload, but said that my shim was the right size, and i do trust these guys.

and i live in colorado, so it is a bit of a drive to jersey

 

How did you fix the hail damage???

 

hail damage was all fixed with paintless dent repair. my finish was fine and now it looks like a brand new car

 

How often do you get hail damage down there? Just curious...

 

well, we get hail once or twice a year, usually in june and sometimes in august or september, but the hail we had this year was like tennis sized ice chunks, not really round, just big jagged ice falling from the sky, so the damage was pretty severe.

 

hey blackcat, take your front plate mount off wash and compound the area with 3m fine cut and wax it , your car will look soo much sweeter

 

I've got a decent amount of hail damage on my i30 too, could you tell me how much it ran you and if they can get dings out of the roof too?
thanks

 

i got insurance to cover mine, so i just paid the deductible.

 

Yup. That is what I think right now. I have 43,000 Km on my rebuild, so I really don't know for sure.

Before the tranny went 60,000 KM and 80,000 KM, so I need to put on more miles.

 

well how much do u think it cost? i'm doing conversion and i'm not changing my bearings since the trans LOOKED to be in good shape and car was still runnin fine (hit from behind) only 54,000 miles....i know sooner or later, preferably later its gonna hit me but I want to know how much to save for so i can prepare for it....lol i might just buy bearings now so i don't have to wait for it when the time comes lol

 

the post you quoted was referring to hail damage

i paid about $1200 for the rebuild

 

SH*T!!! I hope i will still know a friend at that time...i'll pay him half that to rebuild it for me if the time ever came...he should know who i'm talking about

 

it is a lot of money, but money well spent to keep an amazing car running well even longer