Transmission up-date

[Doc-1]

Well I have a few hundred miles on my rebuilt transmission. I found it a technical challenge to rebuild it myself. I must say I learned a lot. A quick note here. The oil level appears to be important. Too much oil in the transmission produces a bit of clunking when going into second. Other than that works great.

Ray was great getting me the parts. Which leads me to my suggestion. I think we should have a RAY Madness sale here. What are your thoughts?

Doc

[David Jerome]

Anyone can feel free to post Rays current specials or any of his prices here on the site. It would actually be appreciated.

[albertomg]

How much did the parts cost?

I"m trying to figure out what to do about my tranny also. I'm concerned about buying used b/c its a crap shoot.

[TRISPEEDFD3S]

How hard was it?

[Doc-1]

I replace all the bearings and I mean all of them. Cost was about 560.00 for parts. I bought an old transmission to work on and took it apart and back together several times and then did mine. It took about 90 days all told. Others that I have done take about a day or so of on and off again effort. Had to build some special tools and such but all and all it was a lot of fun.

[dudemaaan]

I'm guessing it was a manual? That seems like alot for a rebuild kit. Did you replace all the synchros too?

[Doc-1]

Yes it is and Yes I did. I over built it, but then again I always do.

[albertomg]

Were the bearings the main parts that were worn or did the synchros look more worn?

Thanks.

[Doc-1]

5th and 3rd synchros were bad worn. The gear bearings looked Okay but the end bear was shot and the case bearings were varying states of affairs. While i was in there why not do it right. It takes a lot longer to take it out and put it back in than to rebuild the entire transmission. And I am crazy

[albertomg]

Thanks for the info.

I agree with your approach btw. Crazy would be if you offered to come over here and do my tranny for me. :)