Tag: Transmission
Aveo Motor Mount – Round 1 – Transmission Mount
by Subachad on Jan.27, 2010, under Drivetrain, Engine
Generally, this would come before round 2, but that doesn’t always work out. At any rate, here are the pictures from filling the transmission mount.
WRX Half Shaft March 2009
by Subachad on Dec.18, 2009, under Automotive
Installs, like a lot of things in life; the only thing certain is uncertainty. In fact, planning on something going wrong or something holding you up is how I go into pretty much any install. Sometimes it’s something minor… other times… well, this was not one of those other times.
This is the first of a couple installs that night so I pretty much just dug right in. Half shaft installs on an Impreza are pretty straight forward.
1. Loosen large nut holding the half shaft to the knuckle. This can be done with a 32mm socket, long breaker bar. You will need to uh… put your back into it as they say, this will be tight.
2. Lift corner you are working on.
3. Remove wheel.
4. Disconnect Sway Bar.
5. Remove the bolt that holds in the ball joint or the nut holding the ball joint to the control arm. I usually remove both and let the car choose which is separated.
6. Unbolt the tie rod.
7. With a large hammer, beat the control arm near the ball joint. The vibrations will help separate the ball joint from the control arm.
8. Once separated you should have enough movement to pull the knuckle out of the way. This maintains your alignment as well since you are not unbolting the strut.
9. The inside where it goes to the transmission will either pop out or have a pin which you will need a punch to tap out.
Pretty much as easily as you read this, is how the install went. Once the shaft was pulled, we compared it to the replacement… to find the wrong part DOH!
Wheel Removed
A little tight, but I make it work
Ball joint popped allows the knuckle to lean out and therefore removal of the half shaft.
Swaybar and tie rod disconnected.
Old vs new… now if only they were the same.
Replacing a transmission… Another shady wrecking yard
by Subachad on Aug.16, 2009, under Automotive
Didn’t bring camera nor did I have any intention of writing about this install. What was sold as a good transmission wouldn’t move in first. All the rest are fine. The picture is a result of draining the oil.. Which should have been drained already.
Swapping a Swap
by Subachad on May.10, 2009, under Automotive
Tempting fate and with full disregard to the space time continuum, we swap an older JDM WRX transmission and rear differential into a 97 Impreza L. The transmission that we removed? A newer WRX transmission. The day was long, allergies did their best to discourage us, however we pulled through.
The swap itself was pretty straight forward, as with most Subaru stuff, mechanically everything pretty much fit. So as not to upset the ECU, we simply swapped in the original 2.2L sensors. At the end of the day the car is much quicker with the much better matched lower gears. I may add more to this later depending on the comments, for now though enjoy the pictures.
Some more information from Darin and this post on Flat4:
car ran great on the way home, other than the broken speedo cable not allowing me to revv over 4k…
even with 4.44 final drive, im only about 250 rpm higher at around 70 in 5th and i can feel the car accelerate in 5th gear…
Its still an r160 diff. not sure what you mean by diff covers.
the lsds’ are different, on the usdm wrx diff(on left) the lsd assembly is open, ie you can see the spider gears, while on the jdm suretrac the lsd assembly is sealed. the biggest difference between the two is on the us is a 3.90 w/3.54 viscous lsd rear compared to a 4.44 w/4.44 apsuretrac torsen style diff. the gear ratios in the jdm trans are exactly the same as what i have in my wrx, except to final drive is 4.44.
Floaty Impreza L
USDM on the Left, JDM on the right
Rear diff housing
Rear diff area
Ooh a starter
Rear diff hawtness
More starter action
Side view transmission is in
I like to refer to this as, DONE
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