Seized transaxle after swapping

Hello all,

I changed the transaxle on my 05 Prius yesterday.

After putting everything back together, while the car was still on jack stands, I started the engine. The ICE starts and idles fine.

I put the car in drive and slowly lift my foot from the brake pedal...the passenger side wheel begins spinning, but the driver's side doesn't spin...It jerks, there are loud clunk noises and the engine begins to stall... As though something is seized.

With the car idling in park, I can manually spin the wheels. Spinning one wheel by hand causes the other wheel to spin in the opposite direction.

I double checked all my connections and I also swapped the parking lock mechanism from my original transaxle to no avail.

Should I get another transaxle?

 

Thanks for the reply!

I did that, now it turns but still isn't right. I shot a video, but I can't post a proper link yet.

://goo.gl/photos/5Q1L1s8CpAtry5Yu5

Copy and paste the text above, but type in https in front please.

 

Do you think the noise may go away if I do?

 

That's a good point. I won't be able to do it until tomorrow afternoon. I'll report back then. Thanks very much for your help!

 

Ok, just finished a five mile test drive.

The noise from the video is non existent and the car ran normal

Thanks very much JC, I really appreciate it!