Gearbox is making weird noises – 2

This time the gearbox only took about 2.5 hours to remove. It actually helps a lot when you know what you’re doing 🙂

I can’t remember why I have a picture of Maladar’s cat in my cellphone, but here is Baron:

I was wondering if the loose exhaust heatshields would give out this horrible resonance/rattling noise. I took off all loose parts and tightened everything else. Should be ok 🙂

We got the gearbox out really quickly, which meant that we had time to wonder what could be behind this. We opened the 5th gear cover, just to check if the shafts were doing anything abnormal, but nope, everything was just fine.

My friend had a housewarming party for the evening, so I had to leave. Maladar accidentally destroyed the water temp sensor for the ECU, but I said that I have a replacement on my spare engine. Maladar then checked the sensor, but it had a different terminal (if I’m correct, the terminal was changed somewhere near 88/7, and my current engine is 88/9 and the spare is 88/3 or 88/4.

Maladar compares the terminals:

Copied directly from Toyodiy:

So the original one on my car is 89422-20010 and the one Maladar has in his hand in the above picture is -30020

Maladar compares the destroyed one with the spare one. Above, the engine has -30020 water temp sensor and Maladar has the destroyed 89422-20010 in his hand. I was really tired when I wrote this and couldn’t notice the engine stand 🙂

Maladar took a picture for me, so I could find a replacement:

When I was leaving, Maladar told me that he has some time to tinker with my car. I said that I’m happy if I have the gearbox back in the car when I get back.

Maladar sent me a picture of his progress:

Totally surprised me that he had put everything back together. He left some small bits for me, but thats ok 🙂

Some pictures are of course courtesy of Maladar. Thank you! 🙂