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I hate them! I hate them! I hate them! They are the biggest pieces of shit ever made next to Fords, Windows ME, and many other things for which I can't think of at the moment!

I haven't even put 500 miles on my 90 BJ with 144K on the clock and I notice the damn tranny is leaking!!

I have (3) 90 BJ's and every single one of them has something wacked with the auto tranny!!

I would trade all three cars for one good LS wagon or sedan with a 5MT. Maybe I will do the 5MT swap on one of my wagons.

If I wasn't so damn tired I would go kick the crap out of the car.

Mine doesn't leak a drop..and I just turned 145k

I hear ya. A few months after I bought my first SVX, I busted the ring gear and bought a new reman at the dealer for $3000 installed. Best price I could find. That was before I knew I could use a Legacy tranny with better gearing. After someone totalled that car about 7K later, I bought another SVX and got a good two weeks out of that tranny before the pinion shaft started screaming. But fortunately, I just pulled the other one that I just bought and slapped it in the second car. Damn thing weighs almost as much as an EJ. In both my cases it was actually the diff and not the tranny, but same basic result. But after that, I just said heck with it and put a 5 spd in it.

Stephen

Hi. I have noticed on both of my EATs that the O-ring for the tranny dipstick tubes are flattened and leak at the tube where it is fastened to the tranny. It is a very simple fix, there is one bolt holding the upper dipstick bracket and one smaller bolt holding it at the base of the tube. The o-ring is a 25 cent o-ring that is pretty generic. easy to replace and fix if that is where the leak is.

One can pick up the o-ring at a hardware store for next to nothing. Fixed my leak.

mines gone now... hehehe

supernoob wrote:I hear ya. A few months after I bought my first SVX, I busted the ring gear and bought a new reman at the dealer for $3000 installed. Best price I could find. That was before I knew I could use a Legacy tranny with better gearing. After someone totalled that car about 7K later, I bought another SVX and got a good two weeks out of that tranny before the pinion shaft started screaming. But fortunately, I just pulled the other one that I just bought and slapped it in the second car. Damn thing weighs almost as much as an EJ. In both my cases it was actually the diff and not the tranny, but same basic result. But after that, I just said heck with it and put a 5 spd in it.

Stephen

SVX is a different story. They're geared so low that they burn themselves up. Our trannies usually outlast theirs due to our higher gear ratios.

The SVX has a higher gear ratio....lower number....but higher ratio.

My original 4EAT didn't start giving me problems until 179k, and never completely died on me. I did only have 3rd and 4th by the time the engine went on me though. I wasn't exactly nice to the damn tranny for the 14k I had the car before it went.

Legacy777 wrote:The SVX has a higher gear ratio....lower number....but higher ratio.

I just got confused by your post, Josh. The svx's ratio is 3.54 (from what a svx owner told me) whereas the Legacy's is 3.90. I thought the lower the number, the lower the ratio, and vice versa, the higher the number, the higher the ratio. Maybe I'm getting the concept of "ratio" mixed up.

Can you help me out with this?

Ever since I found out I (and the previous owner) put tranny fluid in the diff case and I corrected the problem...she doesn't leak a single drop. Shifting kinda sucks but it is much better than it was.

A gear ratio of 3.54:1 would mean that the input spins 3.54 times for every 1 revolution of the output.

A gear ratio of 3.90:1 would mean that the input spins 3.90 times for every 1 revolution of the output.

So, the higher the "ratio" number, the more "gearing down" results. Resulting in lower (tranny-limited) top speed.

Ever seen a list of transmission gear ratios, say 1st-5th? Any car. 1st starts up usually around 3.5 or 4, and as the gear number increases, the ratio number decreases. That is, the input is spinning closer and closer to the speed of the output, and in ratios of less than 1:1, slower than the output.

93Leg-c wrote:

Legacy777 wrote:The SVX has a higher gear ratio....lower number....but higher ratio.

I just got confused by your post, Josh. The svx's ratio is 3.54 (from what a svx owner told me) whereas the Legacy's is 3.90. I thought the lower the number, the lower the ratio, and vice versa, the higher the number, the higher the ratio. Maybe I'm getting the concept of "ratio" mixed up.

Can you help me out with this?

Did Chris's post answer your questions?