Nfrank89

Yeah, I've seen a lot of talk about CVT issues in the later models but I think 2010 was a good year. Typically I can get a good idea of what would cause a particular sound in an engine but I have very little experience with CVTs so I'm hoping someone with a good ear can give some hints on this one.

Hi, I have a 2010 Subaru Legacy with 130k that has some kind of issue with the CVT. I've worked on plenty of cars over the years but never on a CVT. I got this car from a neighbor who stated that she was having transmission issues and had the torque converter replaced at the recommendation of the shop but when that didn't fix her transmission issues she decided to buy a new car. Here is a video demonstrating the issue. I'm trying to determine how much of an issue this is. Unfortunately I don't have much room to work on it in my 1-car garage. If this sounds like a valve body issue I'm willing to replace the valve body but I don't really have room to drop the transmission and deal with all that. I've uploaded a video to YouTube; based on the video, any thoughts about what the issue might be? Unfortunately it didn't do it in the video but along with the constant whirrrr that you hear it will often behave like a slipping clutch and the RPMs will surge with no increase in velocity. I appreciate any thoughts you may have!

No clue, I thought he shipped all the prebuilt machines. Terence was pretty busy and even I had trouble keeping in touch with him. The whole thing was a bit of a whirlwind. I haven't talked to him in a while now. He's been busy with his new job (senior mechanical design engineer at glowforge) and having babies.

Yeah, Openbeam. I'm the guy that assembled all the pre-built machines for the kickstarter fulfillments. Nice, I've converted all but the mini to E3D V6 Hot ends. I've had the other two machines running the V6 for a couple months now and I'm quite pleased, no more jamming! I had applied a graphene coating to the heatsink of the mini which actually really helped with the cooling/jamming issues but I just got the parts to convert the mini on monday so I'll be doing that soon. Let me know if you want a copy of my config file or the end effector file (i modified an end effector I found on thingiverse.) It is setup to run 288mm rods with traxxis ball joints (ultibots.com). I wouldn't stick with the original end effector. Terence really tried to get it scaled down but it just doesn't provide adequate cooling.

Understandable, I'll see what I can come up with By the way, I have two Kossel pros and a Mini Kossel Pro, all running Azteeg x5 Mini V3 on Smoothieware!

Can you provide the cad files for this pod? SolidWorks part file would be great if you've got them