I'm getting strange vibration when I hit around 4200rpm in ever gear. Car smooths out at around 5000 rpm. Vibration feels like it's coming from the transmission but it could also be coming from the axels. Original OEM axels were taken off the car by the previous owner. What this problem may be? I don't want to bust open the transmission if I don't need to.
View 1 RepliesI'm getting ready to replace my front driver side CV joint when I see this.
I thought the joint was bad as there a tear in the outer boot, grease was thrown around on the wheel, and there was an nasty vibration when the car would coast at speed. This gear oil leak just showed up today (or at least this is the first time I've seen this).
The car was sitting for a couple of weeks with no pool of oil on the ground. I pull it into the driveway and all of a sudden its leaking from this location. Could the vibrations and leak be caused by something inside? I sure hope not. What the problem could be?
So I just received my car back from my shop before this past weekend, and the drive has been quite a blast.
Currently running 7psi on a non-intercooled set-up (GT35R) using Unitronic Software, on a stock clutch. (No worries, intercooling is indefinitely in it's future. Just torn between AA and AWIC. Plus saving for that clutch.)
Unfortunately, the clutch slips nearing the end of third, and around ~4200 rpms in 4th at WOT. But then today, I thought: What if I pull the haldex fuse?
As a result, the car hauls and pulls through all gears and holds 7psi all through redline.
So, Will running without the haldex have adverse *hidden* effects towards the clutch? My theory is that taking the responsibility of the haldex off the clutch is allowing it to hold and not slip.
My R is vibrating in second gear near full or full throttle around 2,000 Rpm. It feels like a high frequency vibration. It seems to be only happening in that scenario. It's when the turbo spools up and there is a large rush of exhaust gas produced very quickly. My guess is that my apr downpipe paired to the stock cat back is the culprit. It didn't happen when I first put the downpipe on, but after the next track day it started. I don't know if there is anything to burn in inside the apr downpipe but it got louder too. Could it be back pressure from the stock cat back? It's very strange and I wondered if it is stage 2+ but running the stock cat back has felt this? I checked to see if the drive shaft was rubbing on anything and for any other visual indicators of rubbing around the downpipe and I see nothing. Perhaps it's the stock muffler. I'm just not sure.
View 13 RepliesBackground facts:
Tranny swapped from my 4 speed auto to a 1.8t o2j 5spd
13lb. Light flywheel
Powerflex dogbone mounts
Peloquin LSD
The problem: Very hard to get a smooth shift from gear to gear. Trust me, I know how to drive, but I can always feel the car shifting into a different gear if you know what I'm saying. On my friend's bone stock Jetta, I just let the clutch out without gas in between shifts and you don't feel a thing.
On my car, you feel EVERYTHING. People have told me the light flywheel will make the ride more uncomfortable in many ways, especially since the RPMs drop much quicker in between shifts than stock.
My 30 neon when driving will have deep vibrations. Me and my friend jacked it up to get under it since its a FWD car. My girlfriend started it up and put it in gear and there was nothing. So we checked the tires and they had no play the engine is fine no shaking/ idles smooth. So when we drop the car and we drive it does it. It puzzles me how when the car has no weight on it there was nothing but when we dropped it and drove around there was the noise/vibrations.
View 3 RepliesI have a 09 Subaru Forester with 66k miles that vibrates like it is going over rumble strips when it up shifts from 3rd to 4th gear. It occurs under normal (not brisk) acceleration. I had the trans fluid changed at both the 30k and 60k services. I have owned this since new. It began before the 60k service. Also, sometimes the tach will increase revs during this as well. I don't know if this next thing is related but when I once need to merge quickly into interstate traffic I gave it a good amount of throttle and the tach revs increased but the trans did not follow with an immediate down shift.
View 4 RepliesI'm most likely picking up a 03 jetta glx vr6. Thing is the 6th gear is out. Is the entire transmission about to break or is it a common thing?
View 16 RepliesLLast night I was driving. I got off the highway and pulling on to the main road in 2nd, I ripped on it and went into 3rd quickly. It basically kicked it out of gear, and didn't seem like I had any other gear besides 1st or 2nd. Got to a local gas station in 2nd, and I originally thought my linkage had come off. While trying to back into a spot to make life easier, there was no reverse. seems like the trans is binding up. Aligned the linkage anyway, when the car is off, it goes into every gear, but when it is on, it feels like 1st-2nd-nothing. If I roll the car backwards and then forward, I have 1st. Other than that, it will not engage. If I put the trans in reverse and then try to back up, it feels like the trans is binding. Same with 1st, unless the car is running. Traction control light will not turn off either, will have it scanned this week to determine that issue...
Ive seen most people have issues with the 1st-2nd shift fork and have this causing the reverse issues.
2005 GLI 1.8t
The car was starting to have issues going into gear after a night of cruising. Then I was experiencing what I am thinking was clutch creep. The clutch would be down and in gear and the car wanted to slowly roll.
What I have done to try and fix it:
I have bled the system many times to get all the air out(i believe), and also readjusted the the linkage. NOW, the car will not go into gear when it is on but will when it is off. I have the car on stands at the moment and it will shift through all the gears when the car is on just the wheels spin since it is in the air.
The clutch/flywheel/pp/throw out bearing all have less then 2k miles on them. Tranny fluid has been replaced with Penzoil syncomesh. I have yet to ever do a hard launch.
Clutchmasters Fx400, OEM DMFW.
Car is an 02m trans w/o the black cap in the side so I cannot do the washer/gasket mod for clutch creep. Believe I have to order NLS shim kit and put behind the throw out bearing.
Over the past couple weeks sometimes when i turn my car on it wont rev above 3100 rpm in any gear. The car is a 5-speed jetta 8v 2.0 and I'm just looking for any insight as to what is causing this problem. My check engine light is on and i had the codes read and there was a bunch, "catalyst system below threshold bank 1", " ignition coil A,B,C,D circuit primary/secondary malfunction", and "camshaft position sensor "A" circuit high input". I'm not sure if these codes are related to the problem but i had to have the whole top end of my engine rebuilt not even a year ago and all of the ignition coils and sparkplugs were replaced during that time.
This problem does not occur every time i turn the car on however, i did notice that sometimes when i go to turn the car on instead of the car starting in quickly, it will start hard after sever cranks and this is usually when i have this issue. it is very weird almost like there is a rev limiter on and i can usually fix the problem if i get up to highway speeds and downshift hard into 3rd and the car will shudder once or twice and will drive like normal again. What could be wrong i was thinking it might be a bad O2 sensor or a vacuum leak somewhere.
Just to clarify what i mean by it wont rev past 3100 rpm i mean that i can start from idle and accelerate normally and when it gets to 3100 rpm the power goes away and will just stay there even i put my foot all the way down. I can shift up and the same thing will happen i will accelerate normally but then once i reach 3100 rpm again it will stay there.
Have a 20th with the 02m six speed ... Car won't go into any gear, except reverse ... Tried with the car off or on, clutch in and out with no luck ...
I took off the linkage from the engine bay and can only manually get the car to go into reverse ... Feels like it can't change "levels" ... Don't think it's clutch since because the car won't engage a gear even with the car off ...
Tried searching and no luck ... Thinking shift forks but hoping not since don't want to drop the transmission and it could be something else ...
I bought my first vw about a month ago. It's a 2003 GTI 1.8t with what I THOUGHT had a 6 speed transmission in it when I bought it. I hate to admit it, but when I test drove it, I never had a chance to put it into 6th gear.
Anyways, I replaced the shift lever, and shift cable (bad Bushings on cable and you can't just buy the Bushings) because it was hard to get it onto 1st gear without pulling the boot up, and pushing that metal part down. (I don't know the actual part name). Anyways it shifts great now that I have the cables adjusted however it will not go into sixth no matter what I do.
This leads me to think that maybe someone put a 6 speed knob on a 5 speed lever. However, the wear on the knob is exactly the same as the wear on the steering wheel. The guy at the local dealership told me he sold me parts for a 5 speed shifter box and that the 6 speed linkage is completely different and I 100% have the 5 speed trans.
The issue with the car is that the tranny won't go into any gear. With clutch in or out. I had very little play left or right or up and down. Not sure what could be wrong. The car has 120k miles and no mods.
View 2 RepliesI'm just having a mis-alignment for my gearing reverse is replaced as first and I have no second gear not reverse only 1-3-4-5 gears are being entered what can I do to fix this...
View 2 RepliesI have been experiencing some grinding when I go from 2nd to 3rd, so the first thing that i did was to replace my trans oil but it did nothing so I went to my mechanic and he said that I need to replace the gear synchronizer. What is the part number and the real name, what i need is what is in the picture below.
My car is a mk4 1.8T with 5 gears....
When I drive, especially in 2nd gear it has no power at all. It sounds like air is leaking because there is a real loud "hissing" noise when i add gas and the car barely moves. I know tdi's aren't quick at all but i drove my cousins (same year same model) and I could feel a difference in the power. I had a few people look at it but no one is 100% sure on the problem, from what I've been told it could either be the vacuum, it needs an egr cleaning, the turbo needs to be replaced (however there is no check engine light on), or a cable maybe not be plugged in.
View 7 RepliesJust put transmission back in car after getting 3/4 gear synchros replaced and tdi 5th gear installed. I adjusted the shift linkage multiple times and did the procedure 100% correct. Now, all gears work except for 3rd. I can't get into 3rd at all whether shifting with cables installed or just freely from tower.
View 4 RepliesMy car is a MK4 Golf 2.0L .. Standard I was stopped at a stop light and I started going everything was fine til i got to 3rd gear. I was in gear but nothing was happening I would push the gas and you could hear it turning but I wasn't moving the only thing is i could hear a little grind. Could it be my clutch has gone bad or maybe the cold weather freezing things up....
View 9 RepliesWhen I try to go into 4th it gives me issue as though there was something rubbery blocking my entry. I can still get in gear with minor coercion, but I still don't like that it's happening. I basically completely ignore fourth gear right now just in case it's something serious. What could cause this to happen?
View 3 RepliesI'm still having vibrations at 75+ MPH. It's not the wheels, and the vibe went away when I removed the prop shaft, and came right back when put back in.I have replaced the CV joint and center bearing on the shaft, and the flex discs don't look bad.
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