Hi everyone,

I have a 99 Z24, 5-speed manual. Tranny is at the shop, spiders and axel gears are toast. Does anyone have a good source for these parts? The shop is telling me that it'll be at least $500 for the parts alone, plus labor. I can buy an entire remanufactured tranny from AutoZone for $1000.

I've checked GMPartdirect.com, but I'm not sure if they have the spiders, and if so what they call them.

Also, does anyone have any other sources for reman trannys? This may be the direction I have to take.

Thanks in advance!

BTW, I only have 87,000 miles on the car, and I baby it. No wheel-hop inducing burnouts or anything. Those of you with higher mileage on the isuzu tranny, if your wheel starts to buck every once in a while on gradual left turns, it's only a matter of time.

On top of it all, while the tranny is in the shop I put a new clutch in, and when I picked up the box that the pressure plate is in it fell out of the bottom of the box and put a nice 6" vertical dent in my passenger side front fender. It deflected off the fender and landed edge-first on the top of my ancle, leaving a nice gash.

It can only get better from here.

Anyone?

The shop I had mine fixed at took almost 3 weeks to find a source for the spider gears. Everywhere they called told them they had to buy an entire diff assembly. They never did tell me where they found the parts from.

Try www.car-parts.com and find a set from the older isuzu applications, as they are far stronger anyways.


15.3 @ 89.97mph, 14's on the way?

That's from the geo storm SOHC, right? Not the DOHC/GSi? Actually, I could just search for the sunbird or something similar, right?

Thanks for the help, guys.

ok, I found a tranny at a junkyard near my house. It is from a 1991Geo Storm SOHC; Manual tranny, only 67K on it for $100. Is this the right differential?

http://www.j-body.org/forums/read.php?f=41&i=26612&t=26466#26612
http://www.j-body.org/forums/read.php?f=41&i=25859&t=25816#25859

Thanks Jackass. I'm going after that tranny tomorrow.

Does anyone have a scan of the diagrams from the GM service manual they can e-mail me?

Anyone?

Learn to do the work yourself!!!!! Go buy a manual that will tell you most every thing you need to know!!!! You do know how to read dont you!!!!!

Wenzel-

In case you didn't notice, I started this thread to find out where I can get spiders and diagrams so that I COULD do the work myself.

I got the machined spiders from the Geo, diagrams from adlldataDIY.com and the work is done. I put the tranny back in my car yesterday morning. BIG sigh of relief.

Ian and Jackass- Thanks for the help.
Wenzel- For future referencethese posts are for people to share their experiences with one another to HELP each other out. Don't be such a smarta**.

-Nick

Dave Wenzel wrote:Learn to do the work yourself!!!!! Go buy a manual that will tell you most every thing you need to know!!!! You do know how to read dont you!!!!!

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