central shaft in the transmission snapped in half

[Smage]

the other day at around 4 am my 95 aurora broke down on the side of the road. The engine would rev up fine but the tires wern't moving. i had it towed to a transmission shop and they told me the central shaft actually broke in half. the guy said he had only seen this happen about 3 times in his whole carrer and it was a manufactureers defect. are auroras know for this? or is it completely random...

[BKVic]

Ive never heard of it before and I dont know if its a defect but I do know what GM will say. Youve got just about the same chance of monkeys flying out of your butt as you have GM fixing your tranny for free. On the plus side, the tranny is much cheaper to get out of a salvage yard then the Northstar engine. Best of luck!


BKVic

[Smage]

well they're just rebuilding the transmission and putting in a new shaft, its still gonna cost me $1200 tho.... at least i dont need a whole new tranny

[Indy8]

...."the central shaft actually broke in half". That's not promising to the rest of us owners.

[mike98c]

I've never heard of that happening even when the engines are heavily modded and used with nitrous or sometimes used with the original tranny in sand rails. It sounds like a manufactoring defect from the supplier which you might prove through Magnafluxing and examining of the part under the microscope BUT of course there's the minor problem that by the time you proved your case you will have spent more money than the repair even if you don't consider your time worth anything.

[Indy8]

Better in a trans than in a 1st stage DC-10 rotor disc over Sioux City, Iowa.

[mike98c]

Anyone free over at the NTSB?

[meatpimp]

Originally Posted by mike98c

Anyone free over at the NTSB?

NTSB is for safety... a breakdown has nothing to do wth the NTSB...

As far as something to be concerned with for other Aurora owners? I don't think so. These transmissions are in widespread use, w/ many in livery cab duty and other hard-core applications. If this was a common, or even infrequent failure, we'd have heard of it. It's a one-off failure with no history of the maintenance, duty or care of the vehicle in quesiton...

[Smage]

Originally Posted by meatpimp

NTSB is for safety... a breakdown has nothing to do wth the NTSB...

As far as something to be concerned with for other Aurora owners? I don't think so. These transmissions are in widespread use, w/ many in livery cab duty and other hard-core applications. If this was a common, or even infrequent failure, we'd have heard of it. It's a one-off failure with no history of the maintenance, duty or care of the vehicle in quesiton...

The car only has 70,000 miles on it... it was my grandmothers and she literally drove it to the grocery store and back. i got it when i turned 16. so the cars in pretty good shape. i dont push it to hard (can't afford the gas to) so i figure its a random thing. glad it happened now instead of when i was driving to atlanta from VA last December.

[mike98c]

The ntsb comment was a joke. I actually knew one of their inspectors, way back when. If it was a shaft in a jet engine they'd be all over it! lol.