Too much torque can be a bad thing...

[Hocrest]

We haven't posted much info about the swap progress yet, but Tom at AWD is working to swap a Phase 2 4EAT into Melis's 92 Pearly. The major hold up was some wiring issues and my schedule which left the car unworked on for about a month.

Me and Melis went back down to NJ yesterday with a speedo corrector fresh from Australia and hopes of finishing the conversion. One of the issues was the Torque Control didn't seem to be working right and would begin to cut fuel at anything above 1/2 idle.

There are two signals out of the new TCU where we only had one, so we snipped the one wire, and proceeded to test it by power braking and revving it. Well that did it cause now it revved great with no sputtering

...then "crunch" "snap"...

Tom looks under the car to see a big puddle of gear fluid

At this point I think pics say it best...

After getting it on the lift, we saw this;


After pulling it off we saw the crack went almost all the way to the top.

It also sheared off the oil pump drive;


Here are pieces of the case;


Other pics here

Thinking there may have been a slight stress crack in the case already and we finished it off???