richieroo

Well I drove it some more Mon night and it is either the tranny or the axels making a lot of noise. Makes noise in neutral as I am slowing as well......?? What to do! Rich

Seems honest enough to me. Anyone seen this on the market over here in the US as of yet? MAYBE I WILL KEEP MY TRUCK AFTER ALL! Rich

I did grind the bell housing, my son reminded me after TRYING to install the EA82 flywheel. Nah, I think it must be too close to the tunnel . Think I should DROP my crossmember about 1/2 an inch? Not sure if I can and get the nuts back on. Rich

WOW McBrat I hope that doesn't happen. What I heard intially at the start of this thread....is that there was a horrible crunching grinding sound, but I isolated that to be the driveline rubbing on my linkage which was too low. I fixed that and drove it, it shifts fine and all, but jut plain roars! I wish I could send a soundbite (haha!) The tranny is out of an 85. The only brakes for this 87 is from autozone and we had to go back to an 84 model! I am really getting tired of this ORPHAN CAR! I am gonna drive some more tonight. I didn't feel secure enough to drive it to work today! Hey ya know it may be nothin! BUT if you heard it you would question it like I do. What I need to do is get somebody else to hear it as well and see where their opinion lies! Thanks Guys! Rich

No I am using the ea82 clutch, flywheel and pressure plate against the ea81 engine. the darn thing seems like it wants to jump out of the car! I cannot explain exactly except to say maybe the top of the tranny is rubbing against the car and the vibration would be increased. STRANGE! Anyone had this SWAP problem in a Hatchback before? Rich

I drove it with and WITHOUT the driveline. It just seems too much or powerful. It seems strange, but I will run it more tomorrow and see. Rich

Well the noise is a noise that I can ony describe as very VERY powerful! Sounds rough and loud! That is my concern. Rich

Okay, here we go, I had my son walk next to me and I drove slowly and he thought that maybe the grinding is the front discs because they were low. SO I went to find the brakes at Autozone and of course they were WRONG! SO I had to get brakes for an 84 instead of my 87. I changed them and still found the noise to be there, a grinding crunching. SO I had one other idea. I took off the boot to the linkage....I took another spline from the front of another driveline and removed the front part and placed it in behind the tranny and observe it. We drove around ......no scraping crunching and grinding sounds. I watched the front part of the yoke from the opening and it wasn't turning, so I knew it was in 2wd. When we got back I noticed a great scrape mark on the driveline. We placed it back and identified it as piece of metal from the linkage that I altered. Now after reinstalling the driveline (making a new connector piece ) I have driven it around and MAN does it make a new loud sound, IS THIS NORMAL? I have heard that the tranny will make it seem like you have a big block, but this is still loud in all gears. Not grinding just loud LOUD! So there it is! Any suggestions? Rich:-\

I just looked at my differential in the back, and it says 3.900 does that mean I just ground all these gears? How can I find out the diff ratios on the tranny from an 85 GL? BTW I never hooked up the electrical, would that be a problem? Rich

I can drive it up the street and it sounds like rocks in a bucket. Crunching sounds, so I guess I got screwed on the 5 speed(*&^%$. I think the lever I put in to pull the 4wd all the way back to 2wd does not do that. I took the lever off and manually pulled the linkage back and it just sounds reallly really bad. NOW I HAVE TO FIND ANOTHER 5SPEED. Or tear ionto this and see about parts. Any body got one THAT WORKS!!?? RICH:-\

I got it from a GL 85. I assumed it was not a full time 4wd. Should the driveline to the back driveline always move? No I think. Seems like the tranny may be bad. Oh I will be pissed if it is! I just lengthened my driveline for 110.00! I have heard nothing but great things that this could be done for the hatchback and now that I have spent all the money for weeks now just to come to this point! (*&^%$ I will try to hang in there but I am pretty frusterated right now! Rich

Hi all, Well I put in the 5 speed tranny the other day and installed the rear driveline. I started it up today and tried TRIED to go up and down the street. WELL the sound is horrendously loud from the tranny. It is making terrible noises while turning. It will only drive in 4wd drive all the time. Lots of crap happening here! I noticed the driveline is in pretty tight, end to end. Should there be some slippage or allowance. I cannot do much about that except to trim the front of the driveline going into the tranny. I can trim the front of the shaft a bit. But all the noise! Anyone got any ideas. NON-DRIVE-ABLE! Rich

Look on the motor and look for the opening to find the flywheel with the "top dead center" (TDC) mark. Move the flywheel to that mark, usually with a socket on the front of the crankshaft nut in front. Then notice where your rotor on your distibutor ends up. It should be at the #1 position for spark plug #1. If it is right at the same place as the wire would be on the top of the cap of the distributor then you are okay and something else is wrong. But if it is off to the left or the right, you will need to pull the distributor out very carefully, notice which way it moves, as it will as you pull it, and then very carefully move it one movement or tooth to the direction to compensate and slide it back down. It should now be at the right mark. If it is over even farther you went the wrong way, pull it out and compensate it back the other way. Be very careful doing all this. I am no mechanic and yet I am able to do these things like this with diffculty myself at times. Get someone to help you if you still do not understand and get the right resources as well! Best of luck! Rich

I had the same problem and I was off ONE tooth on the distibutor. Rotated back or forward (I forget, ) and the car runs as smooth as silk! It had all the same symptons, pretty sure about this. Try that. Go to TDC and see if your rotor is at the #1 position. Rich

I JUST SENT IT out with our driver to a shop. I was going to get real inventive and had all this steam to do it and then I started thinking! Wow THINKNG! So I called a place that will do it for around $110.00. I measured it and I need 48 inches of new pipe. Any more will be wrong! Rich