A833 NP A body trans ID help & intro.
The machine marks seem to indicate that the pad has not been fudged with. So, take a razorblade and cut off the paint. If there are numbers on there, the paint will stay in the ruts, and there ya go.
But if not, then I would guess it's a factory warranty replacement. IIRC those early cars had a 5yr/50,000 mile warranty. While the A833 might just be the toughest 4-speed trans ever built,long before that, the brass rings can easily by tore up by a teenager with no M/T experience, or even just a faulty freeplay adjustment; especially those early narrow-strut ones.
But, if you replace the brass when they give up, I think the rest will go 250,000 or more. The next thing to go is the cluster pin, but it doesn't fail catastrophically, and you can flip it around up to 3 times. So looks like a half a million with occasional bearing replacements, is easily doable.
The machine marks seem to indicate that the pad has not been fudged with. So, take a razorblade and cut off the paint. If there are numbers on there, the paint will stay in the ruts, and there ya go.
But if not, then I would guess it's a factory warranty replacement. IIRC those early cars had a 5yr/50,000 mile warranty. While the A833 might just be the toughest 4-speed trans ever built,long before that, the brass rings can easily by tore up by a teenager with no M/T experience, or even just a faulty freeplay adjustment; especially those early narrow-strut ones.
But, if you replace the brass when they give up, I think the rest will go 250,000 or more. The next thing to go is the cluster pin, but it doesn't fail catastrophically, and you can flip it around up to 3 times. So looks like a half a million with occasional bearing replacements, is easily doable.