A855 - 5 Speed
He drove it directly to my house last week, 6hrs one way. So that was appreciated very much.
I painted it the same as the engine, and I actually like it very much. I noticed a few tiny spots were grease or oil were leaching thru the primer, so I sanded and degreased again. I highly recommend painting right away.
It's back in but not running yet, darn cold.
A few notes.
I massaged the floor with a standard hammer to clear the speedo cable, fits nicely now. They suggest you screw it on prior to install, but you cannot until the trans is fully seated into the bell as it would interfere with the crossmember and prevent installation.
The upper left trans to bell bolt is impossible to get to once the tranny mount is installed, trans too high. I forgot to tighten that one, this time, but a po had cut an access hole in the floor so it is easily accessible from inside.
My homemade trans jack worked like a charm. I put a full size towel over it to prevent scratches. It lifted it up at the perfect angle and with the help of a small ratchet strap from the sway bar to the trans it slid right in without issues.
I'll be finishing and driving on the next decent day.
First round of damage:
The issue with your 4th gear was spotted immediately but the cause took a while to figure out. Our input shafts have 48 synchronizer teeth and at the back of the tooth is a lip to stop the 3-4 slider from over shifting off the back of the inputs synchro teeth. 36 of your 48 teeth had that lip sheared clean off and another was almost cracked all the way through. Obviously you have a new input shaft in your transmission but we had it apart for a few days doing extensive inspection to find out what caused the teeth to come off. After finding zero cause for this to happen inside the transmission I have to assume it was most likely dropped on end during shipping and the slider hit those teeth with such force it snapped them off.
Second round, the repairs were explained to me, iirc, the sliders were replaced, the 1/2 and 3/4 springs were upgraded, and based on that I should notice a better shift quality from before. A few other things were replaced, again, which I do not recall at the moment.
The symptoms I noticed were described in an earlier post.
The list of the symptoms of damage when tested were as follows:
The 1-2 shift quality was very poor, you couldn't really feel it click into gear. 4th gear had a bad vibration, and 5th gear was almost impossible to shift into and when it would finally engage it would snap in violently and about throw me on the floor from how hard I had to lean on the shifter. This morning I got it torn apart and rebuilt and I am happy to report the 1-2 shift feels much better, 5th gear shifts nicely now and the transmission is dead steady when testing it for vibration. It will be on the pressure test bench overnight and will be ready to go again after I clean it in the morning.
He drove it directly to my house last week, 6hrs one way. So that was appreciated very much.
I painted it the same as the engine, and I actually like it very much. I noticed a few tiny spots were grease or oil were leaching thru the primer, so I sanded and degreased again. I highly recommend painting right away.
It's back in but not running yet, darn cold.
A few notes.
I massaged the floor with a standard hammer to clear the speedo cable, fits nicely now. They suggest you screw it on prior to install, but you cannot until the trans is fully seated into the bell as it would interfere with the crossmember and prevent installation.
The upper left trans to bell bolt is impossible to get to once the tranny mount is installed, trans too high. I forgot to tighten that one, this time, but a po had cut an access hole in the floor so it is easily accessible from inside.
My homemade trans jack worked like a charm. I put a full size towel over it to prevent scratches. It lifted it up at the perfect angle and with the help of a small ratchet strap from the sway bar to the trans it slid right in without issues.
I'll be finishing and driving on the next decent day.
First round of damage:
The issue with your 4th gear was spotted immediately but the cause took a while to figure out. Our input shafts have 48 synchronizer teeth and at the back of the tooth is a lip to stop the 3-4 slider from over shifting off the back of the inputs synchro teeth. 36 of your 48 teeth had that lip sheared clean off and another was almost cracked all the way through. Obviously you have a new input shaft in your transmission but we had it apart for a few days doing extensive inspection to find out what caused the teeth to come off. After finding zero cause for this to happen inside the transmission I have to assume it was most likely dropped on end during shipping and the slider hit those teeth with such force it snapped them off.
Second round, the repairs were explained to me, iirc, the sliders were replaced, the 1/2 and 3/4 springs were upgraded, and based on that I should notice a better shift quality from before. A few other things were replaced, again, which I do not recall at the moment.
The symptoms I noticed were described in an earlier post.
The list of the symptoms of damage when tested were as follows:
The 1-2 shift quality was very poor, you couldn't really feel it click into gear. 4th gear had a bad vibration, and 5th gear was almost impossible to shift into and when it would finally engage it would snap in violently and about throw me on the floor from how hard I had to lean on the shifter. This morning I got it torn apart and rebuilt and I am happy to report the 1-2 shift feels much better, 5th gear shifts nicely now and the transmission is dead steady when testing it for vibration. It will be on the pressure test bench overnight and will be ready to go again after I clean it in the morning.