Pulled the pan today, no shavings in the pan and the fluid looked good. Then I pulled the filter, and about 11 teeth from i'm guessing reverse gear fell out.... guess it's time to go talk to Ken

 

Ouch, that sucks... Very odd too, never heard of that happening.

Anyhow let me know if you want some help pulling the tranny.

 

thanks jay, but i got bored yesterday so i pulled it down lol

 

Holy ****! I wonder how that happened??? How many miles does you car have again? I would almost want to take it to a dealership and be like "this is not supposed to look like this after driving the car normally!". That sucks man. If you don't have money for a full rebuild just see if he can replace reverse, I'm sure that wouldn't be expensive. Good luck, let me know if I can be of any help

 

thanks mike, it's a 98 w/ only 47,000 miles. Beats the hell outta me how this happened, it's not like I do neutral drops into reverse!!! This is the first 4th gen Z out of the 5 i've owned that I have never taken to the track or raced and look what happens. All the other Z's never had a single problem. And to add insult to injury it's reverse WTF?? Anyway as soon as I get a job and save some money up i'm gonna have Ken rebuilt the entire thing.