1997 3000GT VR4 - Restoration / Build

[Street_Chally73]

(Previous comment has been remove due to update with who did the transaxle rebuild that was in question on FB.)

I would recommend doing as Bob has suggested to ensure that everything you do will be up to par with the rest of your goals.

[sublime_whatigo]

"Chris Hill - I have to change the story a little. The customer sent ONLY the gear sets to Jack's transmission to change out some friction rings a while ago. The customer then put the transaxle together."

[Chris@Rvengeperformance]

"Chris Hill - I have to change the story a little. The customer sent ONLY the gear sets to Jack's transmission to change out some friction rings a while ago. The customer then put the transaxle together."

For what few vendors we have that will touch our stuff, we sure throw them under the bus easily....

[IPD]

If you aren't on the FB 3SGTO page, then you wouldn't know what's up with someone's current transaxle rebuild...BUT, basically someone had their previous build done at Jack's & had a catastrophic failure. The current rebuilder has so far come across what appears to be a plastic soda bottle cap & the reverse indicator detent housing from what must have been the previous sensor (the one that was mounted to the transaxle had all of its components intact).

I would recommend doing as Bob has suggested to ensure that everything you do holds together.

I'm gonna throw my $.02 in here.

Look people, if you REALLY do care about this platform...you shouldn't be posting this stuff on FB. It belongs on a system of RECORD...which for us, is 3SGTO. Can you imagine how awful it would be if all of the 3/s knowledge was solely contained on FB?

Seriously, it's no better there than it is on 3si. Have a moral spine,ffs.

[Elderloc]

Thank you fro the feedback of this. I dug up the posts Ray had on his 687 build it's a Sprung RPS 6 puck. Brake pads looks like I'll go with EBC Reds for what my goals are. As for the Transmission sounded little strange that Jacks has gone south, I mean I've read so many good things about them in the past. I've got two transmissions one with bad third gear synch, the other had a hole in center case I never saw it in action. Best case would be to get both redone at some point.

[Jimvr4]

Carbotech has pads for every need from street to track. Check with Maximal or Supercar.

[Elderloc]

Guys if I have a problem shifting from 2-3 is that a 3rd - 4th Synchro issue or a 2 gear Synchro issue? Spoke to Jacks and I didn't think about this really until I clicked order on the 3rd-4th gear synchro. Would seem it would be a 2nd gear one which is a lot more of course.

[Chris@Rvengeperformance]

Guys if I have a problem shifting from 2-3 is that a 3rd - 4th Syncro issue or a 2 gear Synchro issue? Spoke to Jacks and I didn't think about this really until I click order on the 3rd-4th gear synchro. Would seem it would be a 2nd gear one which is a lot more of course.

It may be confusing since you probably haven't rebuilt one, but every gear has its own syncro. They call it a 3,4 syncro, 1,2 syncro, etc because the parts are the same for those gear pairs.

[Elderloc]

I've had my spare open, and I figured each gear had one. I was over thinking, spoke with Hans he set me straight.

[Elderloc]

Dropped my trans off in Livonia, Muthen said it will take about a week to clean and redo the trans. I left a 3rd gear synchro with him and ordered the driver/pasenger side CV seals, input cap and output seal. I didn't see a input seal for the 6 Speed hopefully he has everything he needs to do the repair or I have to either break open my spare or spend more money.

Turns out all the seals were damaged, what I thought was clutch material was actually fluids. So I'm having the thing media blasted to clean it up since it's pretty nasty.

*** Correction Trans ended up with all new seals and synchros