I wanted to start this up for other people with the cavys and sunbirds with the 5 speed and the ECO Tec just to see how many others have had problems with the transmissions in there cars and GM giving them the runaround about geting it fixed.I got my car new in December of 04 and in january with 1000 miles on the car 3rd gear came out,folowed by 4th,It was fixed 4 times after that and the last repair it took 5 miles before it came out again and thats when the problems started.I ended up with a lawyer to get the car repaired of taken back by GM.after the car siting in my grandmas back yard for 4 months and ended up with 3 grand and no waranty on the transmission,I got a trans out of a junk yard in cannonsburg pa for 500 bucks and installed it myself.I started using Royal Purple sycromax in the transmission other than the called for ATF and have had no real problems with it sence that moment I also chance the oil about every 10k in the trans to be safe.I also needed some extra cash this summer and was cleaning out the garage so the trans was toredown for scrap.the sift fork for 3rd and 4th was broken and both teflon folowers were gone,I will post pictures of it in the near future.I just wanted to leave this info for any one else who has this problem.
These pics are after I drove around 6k with only 1st,2nd,5th I did do a few burn outs but thats alot of wear on the diff pin for only 6k theres galded pemains of the spider gears on the shaft if you cant see it.
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Frank Katzenberger
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