JAY25

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Today UPS dropped a 2000 tranny at my door. Took me about 1 hr 20 mins to drop the broken tranny. Observations: same crap we have. How ever you will need your speedo sensor so dont destroy it when you remove it. The 2k-2k1s I am under the assumption use some other form to measure mileage/speed. I bought a 99 tranny for my car. The 2k tranny looks exactly alike. Same exact thing as the 2k-2k1 tranny. There you have it you guys can now search from 95-01 for trannies. Enjoy because thats alot of da.mm trannies to search for. About the 3rd gear strengthening, I dont know much about that. I have a 99 from a late model 99 maxima. The tranny has not blown.


Freaking hard pedals on some of these cars...observation I have made about a hard pressing clutch pedal. To me that **** is very annoying. I have been noticing that guys with hard pedal clutches are not driving the vehicles properly. Why do I say that? The clutch is like a brake. Leaves residue which is bad for your health (asbestos). Anyways, the TO gets very fillthy with that residue and the rod it sits on gets very dirty. The powdery residue builds up making the pressing of the clutch pedal even harder because it is dirty. Thats the reason why everytime I install a trannies/cltuches/flywheels the cars leave with soft pressing pedals. I am about to go dig out my stock TO with 60K, compare it to a TO with about 20K mileage and that should be one of the reasons of hard pedal clutches. This also includes stock clutches which are very soft clutches that I have sat and pressed on.

If my camera doesnt act up Ill post the pics for you guys to see the difference.

meccanoble

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nice. Hey i always wondered. Us 97+ maxi owners dont have an aftermarket ECU and if we use 95-96 our CEL light comes on. If we take a 95-96 tranny and put in our car will the CEL light go away if we had aftermarket ECU or is it the engine that makes CEL light go away or what is it?

JAY25

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A tranny from 95-96 to a 97 maxima will not trip the CEL. If it does, only if it does because it is digital, the only thing I can think if is to change the speedo sensor if the harness is different. Baggs has a 97 max and he is running w/a 96 SE auto ECU. Hed be the right person to ask what CEL is he getting.

Also if you did a 5 speed conversion you will need a 5 speed ECU. Dont know if you knew that.

cscm094

wouldn't it be the pressure plate making the pedal hard? hmmm.... at least thats what it was in my gti

edit: btw congrats on the accomplishment/discovery

1FSTMAX

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Good find Jaime...


OT: I wonder if a LSD tranny from the 2k1 AE Maxima has the same desing as the non LSD, or maybe you'll need shorter/longer axles. I heard from Irvine78 that the auto 4th gen axles fit the 2k/2k1 non LSD transmission.

BEJAY1

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We'll the passenger side axle fit the same on mine. Think the driver side is just the inner gear difference.

96shogunmax

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My pedal is hella hard to press with new TO bearing and flywheel, Pressure plate and ACT clutch. Oh well...

JAY25

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My ACT clutch and Baggs ACT clutch is not hard to press on. How ever I sat inside alot of maximas w/stock clutches and they had very stiff clutches. Way stiffer then ACT clutches. I wonder why. The guy up there posted it is the PPL. Yes that can be it be Jesus some it is so hard, driving like that would kill my foot.

JAY25

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My post got burried deep! had to update this thread. In order for this tranny to work with our cars you will need to replace both axles. The car would not even move with the 4th gen axles.

Autozone axle part numbers are

Left drivers side 9717 and right side part number is ST1270. Call various autozones as they may say some stup!d **** like we dont make them etc..because they are too lazy to check the computer or dont feel like ordering them. The tranny seals are all the same thing from 95-01
left drivers side 38342-81X00 and 38342-81X01 for right side these are the seal part numbers. DAVEB the parts guy was right the internals are different.

BEJAY1

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Hmm, strange. My stock '97 passenger side axle worked fine.

JAY25

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the strange thing is that after replacing the left side only, it would make this funny noise. After replacing the right axle noise went away. After the install, I lowered it down and took it on a long test drive. I used some good redline tranny fluid and the shifts are so soft. I didnt want to get off the car after 5mins of driving it. Felt so good to drive a near stock 5 speed. Moral of the story is that Lucky is happy. Thats all I wanted for his car to drive normal. Hell be here tomorrow at 1PM to pick it up

SamMan23

With all this talk about different axles? I wonder how that affects alignment. Has anyone had a problem with alignment after switching to different year trannys?

JAY25

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the stock axles give lots of positive camber. W/correct axles everything was back to normal.

Dave B

My 96 has the stock clutch with about 102000 miles. Ever since I bought the car with 30K miles, the clutch has always been pretty heavy. It's pretty close in comparison with the early 6 speed LT1 F-Bodys or my buddies old 90 LX 5.0 with a Centerforce clutch. I have yet to sit in another Maxima with a clutch as stiff. In our Kansas City group we have a 98 5 speed (stock clutch), 97 (ACT), and 2003 (stock clutch) and the when I've pushed in the clutch I about push the clutch through the floor because their so light. I enjoy my Maxima's clutch feel because it feels very substainial. What I don't like about the clutch is it's "on/off" nature. This car is by far the hardest manual to drive smooth. The clutch is very strong and it behaves like a race clutch in that it's strong and VERY touchy.


Dave