Well a friend went out and paid too much money for a Evo1 that had been rebuilt into a Evo3. He gets the car on a Friday afternoon and comes into the shop on Saturday with a flat tire. Well then on Sunday he has it towed in with a dead tranny. All he said was that he was downshifting and it started to make alot of noise and the car shook. I asked him if he over rev'd it and he said no it only rev'd up to about 4K RPM. So anyways we take the tranny apart yesterday which is amazing seeing how you have to turn them to get them out of the car. You actually have to take them out the same as the 91-92 Galant VR4's. We started taking it apart and noticed a few interesting things. Mitsubishi actually uses a high density plastic lever arm for one of the gears and to get the tranny apart we needed another freakin specialized gear puller from the dealership. Once it was finally opened it was clear that this car had taken some beating in the past. The gears let go everywhere! The only undamaged gear was the one and only steel gear in the tranny. Everything else is aluminum. We ended up with ground up metal getting into everything including the LSD. For just 2 used gears it cost $400. Then we needed new bearing. The bottom line is this repair job is a long way from being over. At least I'll know just about everything about the Evo tranny by the time I get done. http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=1383244&a=10323092&p=34814163 http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=1383244&a=10323092&p=34814163 http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=1383244&a=10323092&p=34814170 http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=1383244&a=10323092&p=34814170 http://albums.photopoint.com/j/ViewPhoto?u=1383244&a=10323092&p=34814173

DUDE!!! that looks scarry... I learned how to drive stick on my subie... and I know I hear the car grind and all the scary stuff... just woundering is that what my subie tran might look like???? drop me a pm

Hey that's just a couple of quick pics we did yesterday. Wait until we do the reisntall! That should be fun. Those gears were as toothless as half the state of West Virginia. Grinding gears is never good but what happened to him I don't even want to know. I will put a 12in ruler in the next set of pics to give them some size reference so you can see how small that tranny really is. I still think we should have just got a used tranny and made life much easier.

Your gears are fine. The grinding noise that you hear is the dogs (large square teeth located on the side of the gears) rubbing past each other as they try to engage. The actual gears never come out of contact of each other. If your dogs clash frequently, it may be a sign that your syncros may be wearing out/worn out. If your transmission doesn't make funny noises, congradulations, your now capable of driving a manual transmission car. http://www.i-club.com/ubb-files/smile.gif

Greg

Thanks Section 8