4th and 5th Gen Manual Transmissions
#1
4th and 5th Gen Manual Transmissions
Is there a reliability issue with the Gen 4 manual transmission? I am
looking at buying one and the previous owner mentioned that the
output shaft failed and took out 3 of the gears too. I noticed that
the transmission was changed in 2000 with the 5th generation. Anyone
have knowledge of these issues?
Thanks
Rick
looking at buying one and the previous owner mentioned that the
output shaft failed and took out 3 of the gears too. I noticed that
the transmission was changed in 2000 with the 5th generation. Anyone
have knowledge of these issues?
Thanks
Rick
#3
I would not trust nissan quality control after my experience.
Long story short- transmission internal parts need to be shimmed to the thousandths of an inch. I have 2 transmissions, and in both transmissions the shims for the input shaft from both transmissions
Meaning if transmission one had shims A for the input shaft and shims B for the output shaft, and transmission 2 had shims X and Y, shims A and X were the exact same and the same goes for shims B and Y! I do not know if this was an isolated incident, but many people on this board have problems in the 4 gen with differential bearings, and I'm sure countless others have the problem but just do not know it
Read my post about it in the maxFAQs in the 4 gen forum as well as http://forums.maxima.org/search.php?...der=descending
Long story short- transmission internal parts need to be shimmed to the thousandths of an inch. I have 2 transmissions, and in both transmissions the shims for the input shaft from both transmissions
Meaning if transmission one had shims A for the input shaft and shims B for the output shaft, and transmission 2 had shims X and Y, shims A and X were the exact same and the same goes for shims B and Y! I do not know if this was an isolated incident, but many people on this board have problems in the 4 gen with differential bearings, and I'm sure countless others have the problem but just do not know it
Read my post about it in the maxFAQs in the 4 gen forum as well as http://forums.maxima.org/search.php?...der=descending
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