A855 - 5 Speed

Biomedtechguy said

But you're the expert with the blanket statement "the 855 is a pile of crap"...
But you don't have one...
Do some have problems, do too many have problems, is the way customers are treated the worst stories ever told?
Yes
THAT doesn't make the 855 a pile of crap.
Mine certainly IS NOT, it performs GREAT, and I'm not the only OWNER of one with LONG TERM ACTUAL FIRST HAND KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE of how GREAT my 855 works.
As far as your OPINION based on OTHER people's experiences, I'll say it again:
Your blanket labeling of the 855 as a pile of crap is a worthless opinion as YOU DON'T OWN ONE.

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Think about this for just a second. How much engineering did it take to develop the box as far as the way the gear box operates? I’d say damn near NONE. The gears, syncros, dogs and springs are as old as time. And the 833 is as simple and bullet proof as it gets.

So why would more than ONE box not stay in gear? Why are so many failing during testing? The OP isn’t lying about that, and he has the documents to PROVE what he says.

So my question is WTF? They didn’t develop some new syncro system, or anything else. They had to engineer how to get a 5th gear in the same case, but they should have used (assuming they did use the 833 design in most stuff but it’s impossible to find anything like engineering drawings or even pictures of the internals of the box anywhere) every single piece of 833 stuff they could.

So why won’t it stay in gear? Why can’t they fix it?

Junk is JUNK at ANY price. When the failure rate is that high, it’s JUNK.