Dirtysouth's Project Thread

Opened up the tranny and removed the broken diff. It was cleanly split in half as I expected. The torque sensing rings and everything were held in place inside the diff , but they are worthless now. Nothing else inside the tranny was damaged.
 

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Tranny is all back together and sealed up! It will be going back in the car this afternoon.

I'd like to thank couple of people who contributed great info in their tranny threads. These 2 people go by the names Turfburn and Focus.

Turfburn's lsd swap thread can be found here:
http://www.mazdas247.com/forum/showthread.php?t=67599

Focus's thread with a huge PDF file for a complete tranny rebuild can be found here:
http://www.mazdas247.com/forum/showthread.php?t=123668574&highlight=rebuild+transmission

Although I have access to a lot of manufacturer info / repair procedures, etc. at the shop, these threads made my life a whole lot easier. + Rep for both of you...
 

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dirtysouth_msp said:
Opened up the tranny and removed the broken diff. It was cleanly split in half as I expected. The torque sensing rings and everything were held in place inside the diff , but they are worthless now. Nothing else inside the tranny was damaged.
wow the tabs on the last picture were completely gone on mine
 
The Banana of Atlanta is back in action...lol.

Finished everything up about an hour ago. Everything seems happy (knocks on wood, jk). (cool)

It was not all that bad, everthing went pretty smooth and I got paid to work on my own car. Can't complain about that. Also, I knew the diff would go eventually anyway.
 
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wow the tabs on the last picture were completely gone on mine

Shame on you Scott, have you been launching at high rpms? LOL, JK. That is pretty strange, was your diff even locking up before it broke?
 
dirtysouth_msp said:
Shame on you Scott, have you been launching at high rpms? LOL, JK. That is pretty strange, was your diff even locking up before it broke?
nope and no it was performing normal up til the break, actually it was feeling great, i launch at about 2500 on course, but on the road I don't do too many launches and never dragged it. Thing didn't make a damn noise when mine went and didn't make any noise after that either. It was strange, I was doing a scca event and was on like my 20 somethings run. I don't know if you have ever been in the parking lot that used to be Atl Fulton Co Stadium, but it is a popular one of rus to autox and there is the brick section where the old in-field used to be, there is a hump in that and I went over it full throttle the car unloaded then once it settled back the car just screamed, me and the other guy both just looked down at the shifter first cause it sounded like it just came out of gear, threw it into nuetral and back into second, same problem, it was right before the finnish luckily and i still had plenty of momentum, sad part was i wasn't even driving, i was letting BigB drive it to feel the difference with the cutout open when it happened. But it woulda broken no matter what eventually because i do drive my car and at least once a month it is driven pretty hard be it on course or doing mountain runs. i am not saying i baby the car the rest of the time but I wouldn't say i abuse it either. I just think that once you get to a certain level of modification it really takes a toll on th ediff in these. i still love the car to death and can't wait to put that tranny back in, hopefully this weekend or early next week. you wouldn't happen to have an extra main tranny shaft bearing would you?
 
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nope and no it was performing normal up til the break, actually it was feeling great, i launch at about 2500 on course, but on the road I don't do too many launches and never dragged it. Thing didn't make a damn noise when mine went and didn't make any noise after that either. It was strange, I was doing a scca event and was on like my 20 somethings run. I don't know if you have ever been in the parking lot that used to be Atl Fulton Co Stadium, but it is a popular one of rus to autox and there is the brick section where the old in-field used to be, there is a hump in that and I went over it full throttle the car unloaded then once it settled back the car just screamed, me and the other guy both just looked down at the shifter first cause it sounded like it just came out of gear, threw it into nuetral and back into second, same problem, it was right before the finnish luckily and i still had plenty of momentum, sad part was i wasn't even driving, i was letting BigB drive it to feel the difference with the cutout open when it happened. But it woulda broken no matter what eventually because i do drive my car and at least once a month it is driven pretty hard be it on course or doing mountain runs. i am not saying i baby the car the rest of the time but I wouldn't say i abuse it either. I just think that once you get to a certain level of modification it really takes a toll on th ediff in these. i still love the car to death and can't wait to put that tranny back in, hopefully this weekend or early next week. you wouldn't happen to have an extra main tranny shaft bearing would you?

Nope, sorry, don't have one laying around, but I could get one within a couple of business days. Rick Case always gives us rush delivery on special order parts. Yeah, I know what you mean about the diff, it was bound to happen eventually. Those tabs probably got sheared due to the rpms when your diff broke. Mine broke while gently beginning to pull away from a traffic light (first gear, very low rpm). I immediately knew what had happened, threw it in neutral and coasted into a parking lot. That's probably the only reason mine were still intact.
 
dirtysouth_msp said:
Nope, sorry, don't have one laying around, but I could get one within a couple of business days. Rick Case always gives us rush delivery on special order parts. Yeah, I know what you mean about the diff, it was bound to happen eventually. Those tabs probably got sheared due to the rpms when your diff broke. Mine broke while gently beginning to pull away from a traffic light (first gear, very low rpm). I immediately knew what had happened, threw it in neutral and coasted into a parking lot. That's probably the only reason mine were still intact.
i shoulda ordered it when i got the lsd bearings, OMP got them to me in one day UPS ground it was crazy.
 
This stuff is really cool to look at and all, but I really wish my exhaust mani studs would arrive so I can get started, lol.
 

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***Self threadjack***

Hopefully I'll quit finding these sons of bitches everywhere (my garage, the shop, etc.) so I live to see my car make real power, lol!
 

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dirtysouth_msp said:
***Self threadjack***

Hopefully I'll quit finding these sons of bitches everywhere (my garage, the shop, etc.) so I live to see my car make real power, lol!

when i lived in az i got bit by a baby one. man that s*** hurt. im lucky it was a baby one.


on topic... nice parts. should be a beast when its done. ive owned all those parts so if u hit any snags feel free to pm me id lvoe to help where i can.
 
daedalus said:
I HATE SPIDERS... Put them in the street and do a burnout on top of those bastards.

These are one of the worst, black freakin' widows. That one was about the size of a silver dollar with its legs spread out. I've also found a few brown recluses, but they are more common here in GA. I think both are about the same level of poison. I figure I will catch as many as I can and turn them loose on my enemies, lol just kidding!
 
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dirtysouth_msp said:
***Self threadjack***

Hopefully I'll quit finding these sons of bitches everywhere (my garage, the shop, etc.) so I live to see my car make real power, lol!

Dude that is crazy ... I have never seen one in person, but it definitely looks sick.
 
those were everywhere back when i used to live in ATL. 'things are some scary s***. don't let 'em near the turbo!! nice parts.
 

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