wow you are angry.......

 

You guessed it right, I did report the notchy gearbox. As for your experience on the VIII, I couldn't say anything because I'd never driven one. My gearbox has got better over time too, but there is still the occasional notch and grind in cold conditions. Of course, if all this is causing no damage to the internals, I don't care much for the convenience factor, that's not why I bought it anyway.

On a different note, this is what a Redline rep came back to me with:





Srikanth,

Thank you for contacting Red Line Oil, in your transaxle I would recommend a blend of MTL and MT-90 to match the 75W85 viscosity being called for, one quart MT-90 then the remainder MTL.

Regards, Dave
Red Line Oil

 

As some of you know already my car is down at baierl mitsu due to transmission failure

here is my thread discribing what happened

https://www.evolutionm.net/forums/sh...highlight=soft

i just spoke with service and they informed me that the service rep is on vacation till next monday (of course) but the factory mitsubishi rep will be down to look at the car today to see or not if my modifications will void my warrenty. To me it already sounded like they wont even touch it. I told them to inform me when he gets in so i can go there and sit down and discuss the situation with him. My aftermarket clutch will probably be the last straw for them to say no to any warrenty fix. Im gonna see if i can throw some threats at him to maybe make him change his mind on not fully covering the damage (magnuson moss, take them to court, send the ACT clutch out to ACT for testing...ect.)

just trying to get an opinion out of you pittsburgh enthusiasts of what you think the outcome will be, and if you have any advice that would be great. Again, sorry i havnt personally met any of you yet, i was planning on coming out to the meet this august so i hope my car will be back on the road by then.

Worst comes to worst i will send the transfercase and the tranny to Shep racing and have them do thier rebuild on it so i dont have to worry about it again. Which im sure in the end it will be cheaper then to have mitsu fix it.

 

lol actually it was 16 but i dont wanna brag lol

good seeing you too man. how did your buddy run?

 

You might as well get on the phone with Shep now to schedule your time LOL

Magnuson Moss isn't going to help you since you have an aftermarket clutch and your tranny failed.

 

unless he can somehow gather proof that the tranny failed because of something other than the clutch, some non-custom part.

 

I dont think threats will get you anywhere. If anything, let mike deal with the rep. If some dude off the street told me to f myself, id laugh at the person. However, mike deals with these people on a regular basis. Im sure he knows what to do/say. Even if you go to arbitration, you are only prolonging getting your car back. You may just have to bite the bullet....

 

thats what im hoping for

yeah im going to have to have a nice talk with mike on his suggestion and to see if he can push it through. But the more and more i think about it...do i really want another tranny? that could possibly break again... We will see and ill keep you guys updated in case it happens to one of you.

 

That sucks man! If you can afford it, get the shep and never look back. Talk with
Mike even if you could get labor covered that would be a plus!

 

how does labor work with warranty? Does the warranty cover partial labor costs or do you still pay full labor costs? cause im sure the broken part cant be that expensive. Im sure mitsu charges 90 bucks an hour in labor costs and it will take them 8 hours to pull the tranny...What if if the part i need is just a couple hundred bucks? Im thinking just getting the tranny and sending it to ohio to Shep racing and getting the rebuild for 900 bucks and put her back in myself. If someone on here could help me do the work that would be awesome as well

 

if it is warranty work the labor is covered. unfortunately i believe the mechanics get less money per hour when they do warranty work as opposed to non warranty work.

and i am gonna tell you right now that an aftermarket clutch is gonna void that drive train warranty faster than you can say 'twin plate'.

 

hmmm should i just go pick her up and take it home then? Im sure someone locally on this board will be willing to give me a hand to diagnose the problem.


edit: good news, i found out that before i bought the car it had synco's replaced by mitsu in Florida and the tranny failure could be connect to a bad reassembly. So mitsu is going to have to cover their own *** on this one

 

since it is already up there you might as well let them take a look at it. who knows, there is always the chance that the mitsu rep will approve it. just don't be angry if they don't

 

As Mondo said its worth asking Mitsu but I wouldn't expect anything.

 

My six speed broke with only 10,000 miles on my 2006. Mike took care of talking to the rep and I got a new tranny...

I broke it again a month later, so it was recommended not to try and get warranty repair work done the second time around.

I went with a Shep tranny, 5 speed, stage 1 upgrade. FANTASTIC tranny...best thing to do if you are going to race your car at the track...even if it is only 20 runs a year....

you gotta "pay" to "play" they say....it is very true....