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Old Feb 16, 2014 | 04:33 PM
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Changed the transmission and now the car will barely idle

I changed my transmission from my original 05' to a 2007 model because I had a clutch let go.
I replaced my single mass aftermarket flywheel with a dual mass and replaced the clutch set etc... Put it all back together and now the car will barely idle at 525rpms and won't excellerate at all. If I try to push the pedal it cuts off. I changed out the crank position sensor but still no help. Checked for disconnected plugs or anything
I have been all over it and can't find why it doesn't want to run

HELP!!!!!
 
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Old Feb 18, 2014 | 07:00 AM
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I figured it out, the Flywheel was not on the right pin so I had to drop the trans again and reset the flywheel. Now it runs like new
 
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Old Feb 18, 2014 | 08:28 AM
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Its good you figured out the problem! I guess you have no problem spinning a wrench! Thats a good thing to be able to do!
 
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Old Feb 18, 2014 | 09:13 AM
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Originally Posted by Gman56
Its good you figured out the problem! I guess you have no problem spinning a wrench! Thats a good thing to be able to do!
Yea, this is the 4th time I have wrenched on my G35.
I bought the car with 113,000 miles on it, at 131,100 the Harmonic Balance Pulley spun off while I was hard accelerating and spun the timing chain and destroyed the entire top end. Every valve was bent and I had no compression.
I pulled the engine and tranny and swapped in a new engine with 3k miles on it.
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Then around the first of Aug 2013, my throw out bearing went at 216k miles on the car (85k on the motor), I replaced the clutch, pressure plate, throw out bearing and pilot bearing. The first or second time out driving after the re-install, something sounded like it came loose and I had a vibration in the tranny. Unfortunately, with my crazy health I had some issues where I couldn't pull it back apart right away, so I drove it for another 4k miles with the vibration.

This weekend I finally had the time and had collected a 07' Tranny with 57k miles and a new clutch kit.


When I pulled it apart I was mortified that it was still shifting.
There were two holes and pieces of the pressure plate all over the place. I found my vibration.
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The forth time was pulling it back apart and re-positioning the flywheel on the correct pin hole to get it running.

So now I have replaced the aftermarket 14lbs single mass flywheel with a OEM dual Mass flywheel and a new clutch kit that the place sent me to replace the faulty one. I guess I just got a fluke messed up pressure plate from them the first time, but I did notice that the first clutch disc had 6 springs in it and my new one has 4 bigger springs in it this time. Not sure what that does or affects but the new tranny, flywheel and clutch kit feels like a new luxury car again. VERY easy to shift and almost seamless shifting.
Really stoked about it being back together right.
 

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