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Re: OK! Fess up!
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Posted by Larry West [Email] (#1140) [Profile/Gallery] (more from Larry West) on Tue, 15 Mar 2011 06:20:57 Share Post by Email
In Reply to: OK! Fess up!, Noel, Sat, 12 Mar 2011 15:37:34
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Lessee...

#3: stripping the threads on the outer CV for a 99... THAT was a $300 mistake. But it was my first 99, first time I'd ever done brake rotors on that car...

#2: changing the perfectly good left hydraulic motor mount on a 900 turbo with the motor in the car. That job is so impossible, that had I a cliff handy, I just might have rolled the car off of it. Yes, I put the new one in, because after all that frustration, I wasn't going to do it again anytime soon!

#1.5: Doing alternator work on a 900 turbo, and failing to tighten the stay bolt at the motor. That stay also helps hold the timing cover on, and in a VERY critical area, right next to the main oil gallery. Oil pressure eventually sidestepped the gasket, and rod knock ensued...

But #1 with a bullet has to be when I grenaded my 1984 900t's 5-speed gearbox... In my neighborhood, they would come around every few years and do the oil & chips thing on the road. It sucks the first few weeks, till the chips get settled and pressed into the old road surface. Then for a while, you have EXTREME traction...

Well, I stupidly decided to "go through the gears" getting home one night. First gear was fine, but when I dropped the clutch in second, the car made an expensive sound. The sound of which was caused by the sequence of events that started with the tires getting full traction on the chips, everything in the driveline locking up, through the ring gear, and the pinion trying to make it all move, with the full faith and credit of 135 turbocharged horsepower pushing it... Two chipped teeth on the pinion (there's only 9 total...), several chipped teeth on the ring, and a two-piece main transmission case later, and it rolled to a stop.

I learned a couple things from that:

1) Don't try to go through the gears hard on fresh road chips...
2) never, never, ever trust any synthetic MOTOR oil in the 900 gearbox. I was stupidly running Mobil 1. That was before my MTL phase, which I've completely grown out of, and today will ONLY put processed dinosaur pressings in a 99 or C900 gearbox.
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