pieces

soooo my driveline is mostly in pieces.

drained the transmission fluid, removed the driveshaft (which i had to PRY off because the joint had rusted), and a few painful hours later, removed the crossmember. so my transmission is being held up right now by a jackstand and the motor mounts...i'm gonna attack the rest of it tomorrow. i thikn i need a hand lifting the trans out, though. fucker looks heavy...and i'd hate to drop it....both because of damage to the trans and damage to my FACE (like if i drop the goddamn thing on my face while i'm under it).

we'll see.

and goddamn there's a lotta oil and grime down there. fuckin' trans is leaking from EVERYWHERE, and it picks up allt he road dirt and sticks to it. what a mess. every part i take off i've vowed to clean before i reinstall it. not that it'll last long. originally i planned on painting whatever i touched/replaced/fixed red....but decided that would cost too much.

i'm so excited to get into my bellhousing and see what the fuck flew out...this is going to be a rather expensive fix, methinks. so far i have to replace a few things that were already busted and a few things i busted during removal (they were due for replacement, anyway).

i want my baby back!

can sort of see inside there now... 

there she is....FUCK. 

math

estimate engine speed at 2000rpm

2000rpm = 2000 rotations/minute =
2000rpm * (1/60)minutes/second = 33-1/3 rotations/second

1/(33-1/3) = .03 seconds/rotation = 30 milliseconds = 15 milliseconds/half-rotation

i was about 15 milliseconds from dying today (or being maimed) when something in my bellhousing (houses the clutch assembly) came lose and got SPAT OUT my bellhousing. THROUGH the bellhousing. straight down into the ground (and not into my foot, naughty bits, arms, or noggin), luckily (hence the 15 milliseconds). Had the assembly made one more half-revolution, it could've easily come up the floorpan into the passenger cab. oh hey, that's where i sit!

of course when it happened it sounded like a bell going *DING!* like i'd won a prize at a carnival. so of course i laughed...but at the time i didn't know that there was a 1 inch. hole in my bellhousing...a maybe 1/4 inch bellshaped iron housing.

when i found the hole i laughed again.

fuck.

other than the hole...for some reason she drives perfectly fine right now....



fuckall

fuckall

so i killed her again.

i think the problem is either my throwout bearing ate itself or it ate my pressure plate diaphragm spring....meaning i can't get my clutch to release and, therefore, can't get 'er in gear.

for the past two weeks i've had to adjust my fork rod (lengthen) every 3-4 days. shifting was getting hard because i'd have to push the pedal INTO the floor to get it to shift...and after lengthening the rod it worked beautifully...but kept going back. i never got a chance to mark/measure the fork rod to see if the vibration was just turning it somehow...but doubt that it could happen that fast anyway because TODAY, same thing, adjusted it in the afternoon...drove around and got home...started the car about 2 hours later to drive her into the garage and the clutch wouldn't disengage at ALL (jammed it into gear and still rolled with clutch all the way in).

lengthened fork rod again (looked like it was just getting longer and longer), started the car (in neutral), and heard a mettallic *chink* the moment i pushed the clutch in. now it won't go into any gear except reverse with HORRIBLE grinding.

jiggling the fork...it seems to move all over the place and i can feel it hitting something and clicking before it puts the throwout bearing on the pressure plate (or at least that's what it feels like).

my guess is either my throwout bearing ate itself or my pressure plate spring fingers are messed up....or maybe the throwout bearing was already bad or something and my adjustments pushed the mangled mess too far into my spring fingers or something.

posted my questions on nastyz28.com...a site with a messageboard that's helped me numerous times before. *sigh* in the meantime, i think i have to bus it to kaimuki.

yay.