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Is my car screwed?

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So this one day I was making a u-turn and I hit this chunk of ice in the middle of the road. It caught and stopped my car. I reversed off it and then there was a loud air whistling sound and it was a lot harder to accelerate right? Then after driving around a bunch and trying to figure out what it was that was making the sound. eventually figured it out. Then while trying to repair the hole in the intercooler long enough to get me to the pullnasave got stuck in the ice again. actually two more times total. it was terrible had to dig and pry the car out of an ice ditch twice but it drove just fine afterwards. except the before mentioned hole in the intercooler. anyways long story short burned up all the tranny fluid had to switch out the filter and gasket. Didn't do it right of course and accidentally over tightened some bolts in the tranny pan. fucked that gasket up good then while jacking it up to fix said error. the spacer I used to get some extra height slipped and end up pushing on the transmission. Then while jacking it up I heard really loud pop. Like a really really loud popping sound and I was like fuck and put it on jackstands and looked but didn't see anything... ( however I am not a mechanic by the way. this is the first car I have ever worked on. I knew nothing about being a mechanic before this car and the only things that have saved me so far are my Chiltons manual which has since been nearly destroyed you guys here at the passatworld.com and YouTube videos.) ok so skip ahead a little and now after being broke down for over month I've somehow managed to swap out the transmission and the starter and the crank position sensor and the battery and a relay a couple fuses the coolant (is it OK to use the blue kind? It said European cars so I got it figuring it should be right right?) and tranny fluid new filter and gasket... ok finally get the thing to turn on again the last thing turned out to be a fuse lol. Now from the bellhousing area there is the sound of metal scraping on metal in a rhythmic scrape scrape scrape kind of thing you know? Looking at some of these other posts I've seen I'd say I bent that little plate that goes between the transmission and the engine. it's a thin metal plate idk what it's actually called by the way I just think of it as a thin metal plate. anyways its bent and being scraped against by the three bolts that hold the torque converter to the flexplate inside the bellhousing? OK so the real question here is can I safely drive with it scraping the plate like that or must I replace that plate before I can move forward? Please and thank you also i need to know asap please. also also when the transmission came out it didn't "come out gently " it "fell out" and when I put the new one in I did so with three jacks two pieces of wood and a rope and my car briefly had wooden stilts under its jack stands for extra clearance for the tranny. oh and the exhaust came out last however it did come out before the new one went in yes. the entire subframe was dropped however it went from rear to front instead of front to rear lol and reinstall went same way front to rear instead of rear to front funny shit right? Also I believe there might have been smoke coming from tranny when filling up the fluid however this may have been water build up in tranny before installation happened I think? Is that bad?
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G12 has been superseded by G13. But you can simply go to your local auto parts source and pick up Zerex G40, which is what I did. Same color and chemistry.
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Those alignments are pretty critical and would warrant disassembly and new parts, but the time and expense of new parts may be overwhelming for some on more limited budgets. I think simply loosening/disconnecting the mounts and taking the driveshaft down at the rear of the transmission and shifting it back a bit would provide enough space to straighten things out. I wouldn't use the intermediate plate unless it checks out to be within about 15 thousandths of flat with a good straight edge and feeler gauge. You can only squish things so flat before things begin to deform and break with cast aluminum.
I found a church that is willing to help me out and buy it for me thankfully
So soon as it gets here in the mail I have to tear it apart again that's freaking awesome but it is what it is right?
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Hopefully it really is just the intermediate plate that is bent or whatever is wrong is way worse then that
However it doesn't seem to be anything else the car has been driven a couple times since all this happened and sounds like that is what it is and nothing has gotten worse yet
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However it doesn't seem to be anything else the car has been driven a couple times since all this happened and sounds like that is what it is and nothing has gotten worse yet
Ok I misspoke apparently um now o have a blown head gasket and I don't know how it happened lmao f***ing weird
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