Its cheaper just to get penzoil syncromesh fluid for the trans. when I put a swap together for someone last summer it was like 10 bucks or something from the dealership for a quart of mtf. The syncromesh was ~8.50 a quart I want to say.
I realize select few dont like penzoil products, for the honey additive in there oils- hence the yellow bottle. just a thought, syncromesh is something that I will only use in my transmissions. royal purple is like 19.95 at pep boys for a quart. I am cheap and just wanted to throw that out there, lol.
looks good though man, didnt realize you stayed with brent- nice hoist lol. you gone to bs with hassan at tdc since the two shops moved close to each other?
If I were going to get syncromesh, I would have opted for the Friction Modified (FM) which is not like the regular syncromesh like the pennzoil product. I decided to keep it OEM and picked up 4 quarts of Honda MTF, which was about 8 a quart. If I run into a lot of notchyness, I will give the FM Syncromesh a try when I come up for the next fluid change.
The hoist was borrowed from Sage Autosports, they loaned it to me for a day to pull the engine out, then a couple more days to put it back in. Dont know what I would have done if they werent nice enough to let me borrow it. I dont know a Hassan, but I know Philly and Brian. Also, Brent stays with me, just to make that clear
My update, its a long one:
I started work on the car on Friday. Had to pick up a couple things and figure out how to fix the intake manifold elbow. I dont have any pictures, but I will take some tomorrow afternoon. I was able to remove the broken piece inside the manifold and there was enough left on the 90* that I filed and sanded it down to fit snuggly into the manifold. If I run into a vacuum leak problem, I will put some silicone or jb weld to seal it.
Once that was out of the way, I put in my axles, which were easier going in than coming out and hooked up my shift linkage. I filled up the trans with fluid, and the engine with oil. I think I may have to replace the crush washer on the trans fill plug. Ive been reusing the same one for quite some time and I think I have a little leak...
I mixed me up some more coolant (I buy the unmixed and distilled water and mix my own. I get a lot more for my $). Once I did this, I found out I forgot to hook up a coolant line at the back of the intake manifold as well as a pinhole in my radiator from installing my header. I hooked the hose up, and pulled the radiator to alumiweld it with my torch. Im pretty sure I filled the hole, but I will know for sure when it builds pressure.
Saturday was spent trying to find out why my car wouldnt start. I thought everything was good to go! I was getting power, the battery had 12v. The starter wasnt cranking at all, so I attributed it to potentially being a bad solenoid. I had the starter tested at 2 different places, checking out OK at both. I tested and also jumped my clutch switch to no avail, and I even bypassed my started cut relay to get it going. No click, no turn, no noise at all.
I even cleaned off my grounds, the valve cover ground and also the thermostat ground. I pulled the starter out (now for maybe the 10th time, and cleaned off the tranny surface it touched since I painted it, cleaned the contacts in the starter, and also cleaned off the face of the starter that contacts the tranny.
All of this and nothing... Then I remembered I painted the transmission ground that bolts to the transmission. Its a little metal plate and looked pretty bad when I took it off. I cleaned off the paint where the bolts secure it, as well as the paint on the transmission where it contacts and BOOM. It cranks!!!!!
It took a little while to turn over after forgetting I had my fuel kill enabled... but she started running albeit poorly. Im pretty sure im off a tooth on the timing belt because its camming pretty bad. I will tackle that tomorrow after I attend church, and hopefully will be able to break her in before work on Monday! WOOT im excited.
