[Fox]

i feel sorry for you guys who think swapping transmissions is best, a/t might be "boring" but the m/t's have problems with second gear and with 1st and reverse sometimes, and uhh ha, not to mention the crankshafts are different between the automatic and manual motors, the centers are different sizes around. lol..

:abovelol:

M/T's having problems? really? I've NEVER had a problem with mine, not a single one. And the people which had the 2nd gear grind problem fixed it just by changing thei trans oil.

 

[Fox]

really?? because ive had to spend 278 bucks on internal M/t parts, and ive had to rebuild a few of them, only problems ive seen from the a/t is the torque converters going out, and the clutches slipping slightly during hard shifts which is fixed with a can of shift conditioner

I dont see why the need of the rebuild, eitheir abused or bad maintened transmissions. There are members over here that are close to 300k miles on their original m/t trans, without having to rebuild/fix them. Regular maintenance is the key.

 

[Fox]

the 02 had 186k when i sold it, but i had rebuilt the transmission at 145k, after dealing with no 2nd gear since 110k

at 40k i broke both axles at the same time while being an idiot and racing a truck that i had no chance of beating. replaced clutch with an AC Delco replacement at 120k. changed the brakes and rotors at 100k, had to put a different bottom end in the car at 120k, when i lost second gear the motor started to knock from a spun rod bearing, and i drove it 10k while it knocked like a beast. then at 160k the second bottom end had given way, and i built one from bottom up, but silly me got high and didnt put hoses on the end of the rod bolts, scarred a rod journal on the crank, that motor was pulled out the next day put a used motor in it and sold it to my buddy for 3g's at 186k. he dogged it out and ended up making the engine/trans tick very badly, so i swapped a 2001 engine and 5spd trans into it from a parts car he had bought for 600bucks.......


my whole family has elantras too, aunt has a 02 gt hatchback 5spd that ive done work to, i just got my grandmothers 03 midnight gray elantra when she passed a few weeks back, and my mom has one of those turd gold 04's....

hers is a lemon, its had a gremlin in it since she bought it :wtf:

Badlucks or something, i didn't have any gremlins, nothing to fix except for maintenance(brakes at 70k, clucth at 75k) And it had its part of beating... huge beating.