{"id":4180,"date":"2015-10-15T20:02:15","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T03:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/?p=4180"},"modified":"2018-11-03T13:35:40","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T20:35:40","slug":"bug-transmission-down-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/bug-transmission-down-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Bug transmission down again :("},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>\n<p>Sadly, my transmission saga continues. My rebuilt transmission from MOFOCO was slowly leaking oil from the main shaft. I had took it out\u2026and tried to see if there were any problems. A few months ago before vacation I made sure the pilot bearing was in the right spot (or where I thought was the right spot), and put it back together. It still leaked oil, but I just continued to drive it. Right before my last trip it started slipping \u2014 this was no surprise, as I knew the clutch pad would eventually get some oil on it.<\/p>\n<p>So, back out it came. Here\u2019s a video of it:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cxulnAYb7B4\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know what is wrong. The transmission itself runs smooth and has no other problems. I\u2019m asking for help on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diyelectriccar.com\/forums\/showthread.php?p=690641#post690641\">DIY EV forums<\/a>\u00a0and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesamba.com\/vw\/forum\/viewtopic.php?t=615137\">samba.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So, I figured I\u2019d try the old transmission again. I installed it (takes a day to do the swap), and it makes a horrible noise:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/msc0nDlNWlQ\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It didn\u2019t make this bad a noise when I took it out. But, after I took it out I did mess with it by taking one of the sides off and replacing the main shaft seal. So, I can\u2019t drive it like this to see if it would also leak oil. I also asked on the samba about this different problem (no responses yet).<\/p>\n<p>So\u2026I\u2019m stuck. I don\u2019t know what to do. A cool EV I really enjoy driving and two non working transmissions.<\/p>\n<p>I could buy *another* transmission, but I don\u2019t want to waste $800-$1200 on another one. Especially if that isn\u2019t the real problem! I\u2019d rather rebuild one of these to get one good one working.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sadly, my transmission saga continues. My rebuilt transmission from MOFOCO was slowly leaking oil from the main shaft. I had took it out\u2026and tried to see if there were any problems. A few months ago&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/bug-transmission-down-again\/\">[read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electric-bug"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4181,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4180\/revisions\/4181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}