Question on noise from mendeola ebox

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For the heck of it, i took this video also might as well post it, tires off the ground, right side brake caliper has some drag on it a you can see but can hear the noise coning in an out, wonder if there is something to what @SeanRitchie is saying.

 
Hopefully Trans guy is going to come over this weekend and listen to it, and then I am pulling it back out again. Tested out one last thing, slowly wound 1st gear out, shift to 2nd, the tone definitely follows engine RPM and not wheelspeed.

 
I pulled it out today, in gear spinning the input shaft by hand, i can feel it rotate nice and free, and then get very stiff to rotate (like 2 hands) then free up again. Dropping it off to the trans builder tomorrow. Crossing fingers its obvious. About an hour of runtime on it i think. Fair bit of aluminum (i assume, its not magnetic) in the bottom of my pan.
 

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smithabusa said:
I pulled it out today, in gear spinning the input shaft by hand, i can feel it rotate nice and free, and then get very stiff to rotate (like 2 hands) then free up again. Dropping it off to the trans builder tomorrow. Crossing fingers its obvious. About an hour of runtime on it i think. Fair bit of aluminum (i assume, its not magnetic) in the bottom of my pan.
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This was the drain plug, and what i assume is aluminum in my drain pan as it's not magnetic, with maybe 1 hour in it since it was worked on last. He's going to change main shaft bearings but I'm lost besides finding another trans builder in michigan.
 

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lincster said:
Box it up and ship it to Sean.
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Probably good advice, a bummer being in Michigan I assume I will lose 2 weeks in shipping alone, pretty short season here where the weather is nice and the kids go back to school, but I may have to bite the bullet and just lose this season to get it aced up.
 
Something noticable in the video is he does not have reverse gear installed when running it through the gears. The adjustment on that reverse gear can get pretty finicky, more so if the parts that engage reverse are worn/loose and allow that gear to slide back and forth more than it should (which could be the noise that you hear when on/off the throttle as that gear moves around).

Material on the drain plug is definitely gear or bearing material since it's magnetic.

Happy to take care of it for you, shipping to me is only about 4-5 days each way in most cases, but I am absolutely swamped with work right now, and wouldn't be able to touch it for about 3-4 weeks once it gets to me. Best case, I can get it back to you mid August.

Also sent you a PM.
 
smithabusa said:
Probably good advice, a bummer being in Michigan I assume I will lose 2 weeks in shipping alone, pretty short season here where the weather is nice and the kids go back to school, but I may have to bite the bullet and just lose this season to get it aced up.
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Take it from someone who has had to pull their motor more times in 6 years than I can count, (10-15 Times), I would pull it and send it to Sean. Rather lose a season than have to keep pulling the motor/trans over and over again.
 
ChasingSand said:
Take it from someone who has had to pull their motor more times in 6 years than I can count, (10-15 Times), I would pull it and send it to Sean. Rather lose a season than have to keep pulling the motor/trans over and over again.
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I think I am up to about 6 times so far (not all trans related) in the 14 months i've owned the car. I am getting it down to a science LOL, last time was about 2 hours to pull the engine, and then pull trans seperate by hand (for me a lot easier I can leave the engine much more intact if I just slide it out the back first versus lifting over the trans mounts which a bunch of stuff collides with then).
 
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