For those of you with never ending transmission problems and for the dear of you can't figure it out, I may have an idea. There's TSB for our cars that's states replacement of the output shaft and reverse idler gear as the fixes. Now...that's essentially replacing the entire effin transmission. My output shaft snapped so i was screwed in the butt already.

 

Not sure how I just now came across this thread, but I find it ironic that the first time my tranny blew up it was the reverse idler gear that seized up, and the second time the output shaft shattered into 5 pieces...

 

I have some nasty pics!!

 

i'd be interested in a copy of this TSB. I assume this is for the manual?

 

Thomar PM me your email address and I can email you the TSB. I can pull it from All Data

 

Can you post pics of the explosion?
My trans is about to detonate it sounds like death, lol.

 

I just read that TSB on the neutral rattle thing. I'll have to listen for that now, although I bet I would have heard it by now.

For those that had the issue, what did you experience? Hard gear shifts, noise, sloppiness?

 

???

 

Still waiting for those pix , but did something give you hints it was gonna happen?

 

Here's a couple pics from mine...

 

I'm gonna try and get a camera and take a picture of the snapped output shaft

 

How did that happen?!

 

Eeeek, that is fugly.

 

ouch. so did you know it was gonna happen any noises or change in the driving? or did it just blow up lol?

 

I had no warning that it was going to fail... I had also just had my transmission rebuilt about 2 months before the shaft shattered. It sucked but the transmission guy covered it under his warranty so I didn't have to pay a dime to get it fixed :-)