Ridlbox Gates new tranny

[Ridlbox]

Before I say anything about my transmission I must give mad props to Dan for helping me do this work. Couple of weeks ago I drove from my house towards Dan's house in Reno. At first it felt like the clutch went out on my Tercel it turns out it was the entire transmission. After a day of pulling my transmission and then another day at Pick N Pull we replaced the rear pumpkin gears transmission and now my car is running on 1987 gears in a 1984 Toyota I do not believe we took any pictures of the process as we were doing it in a hurry but thank you again Dan you were awesome and as always my car still is alive

[Jonymoto]

So what went wrong with the tranny? Could you elaborate please as it might come handy if we are ever in this situaion. Was there any sign that the tranny was going? Yes, I agree with you Dan is a real great guy. He's helped me with parts a couple of time despite the distance between us.
Thanks.

[Ridlbox]

The biggest problem with my transmission was me I had forgotten to check fluid levels of transmission despite all of the work I do put into my car when I do work on itthere was no real indicator that it was going out other than all of a sudden it wouldn't shift into Forest and I had to stop the vehicle to get it to go into first gear or any here for that matter rather strange if you ask me

[Jonymoto]

That's the worst thing I dread most, a broken tranny. There doesn't seem to be any available in Oz for the T4. So I check the level every 5,000kms (about 3,000 miles) and replace the oil every 10,000kms as a precaution.

[Gottolovem]

Cliff
You left a few Gates bolts sitting next to your muffler bearings and you should know better than to shift into the forest

The lesson here for any new members is CHECK YOUR GEAR OIL

[Ridlbox]

So my stupid spellcheck is not the best thanks again Dan you are the man

[Jonymoto]

Excuse my English guys, what does "shift into the forest" mean? Is this an American term or is it just my English? English is not my first language (French is), but I've been speaking English since I was 12 and still learning.

[Gottolovem]

Forest was a typo for 4th gear

Shift into fourth

I was teasing him it means nothing

[Jonymoto]

Thanks Dan, now I understand what he meant about spell check.

[Petros]

it is always good to shift into forest when ever you can, sure beats shifting into city or desert any time.

[Ridlbox]

Sometimes I feel like my phone is just too darn smart today is not one of those times

[Jonymoto]

Be suspicious of anything with the word smart in front of it like smart phone, smart meter. A few years ago all our analogue electrical meters were being replaced with smart meters. It cost me about $250 for a new meter because I have solar panels.
These meters are supposedly able to be read remotely via the telephone line/internet. So they don't send someone out to read them anymore. Guess what, I'm now having to read it for them otherwise they'll just calculate my usage based on an average which doesn't reflect the true usage. As far as I'm concerned, It was all a con to save themselves money as usual to increase their profits.
Recently, we've had a lot of outages with the phone line. For some reason the meter reset itself to zero and God only knows what the usage has been since I last read it. No doubt I'll get ripped off again. I'll stop whingeing now. This site is very therapeutic I find.

[Petros]

I am especially leary of the "smart" car. recently in the news here was a Tesela that supposedly was on autopilot, the owner (who was not driving, but letting the "smart" features of the car drive it self) was being distracted by watching a movie, had the costly car plowed into a semi-tractor-trailor rig. It killed the driver and totaled the car. Tesela of course is blaming the driver, who was not driving at all.

[irowiki]

I am especially leary of the "smart" car. recently in the news here was a Tesela that supposedly was on autopilot, the owner (who was not driving, but letting the "smart" features of the car drive it self) was being distracted by watching a movie, had the costly car plowed into a semi-tractor-trailor rig. It killed the driver and totaled the car. Tesela of course is blaming the driver, who was not driving at all.

It was proven last night that the car was not on autopilot at the time of the crash. The Tesla autopilot requires you to keep both hands on the wheel, and the guy did not, and 30 seconds before the crash the car warned him and turned autopilot off. After which the guy crashed the car himself because he didn't know what was going on when he was supposed to be paying attention.

[The Professor]

Tesla Autopilot has fewer crashes per 100 million miles driven than the average U.S. motorist, 0.76 crashes per 100,000,000 miles driven. Autopilot is safe, humans are dangerous... (It was also a worst case scenario: a white, unmarked trailer, perpendicular to the highway, against an overcast sky. Not something you encounter on your daily commute and certainly something that is difficult to model for a driver's aid.)