James’ 1974 W200 build

mopardude318 said

View attachment 1715686757 View attachment 1715686756 View attachment 1715686753 View attachment 1715686754 View attachment 1715686755 @6PakBee I don’t have much going on with my 435, I have another one I’ll take apart for ya and get ya pictures of that 2nd gear. I’ve heard from multiple people you can rebuild these things in the dirt with no tools, others say you need a damn precision dial indicator, so I don’t know much, I didn’t use a dial indicator on this one to check end play, I just ran with it. Hopefully it’ll shift. I don’t know.

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Don't go to that much trouble on my account. I'll figure something else out. As I remember, second gear is a strut style synchronizer rather than the cone style that 3rd and 4th use. Like an idiot, thinking because I had the FSM I didn't have to pay attention, I just took it apart. When it came time to reassemble it, the FSM is vague and as I mentioned, second gear has never shifted right. As to the transmission itself, you have to pay attention to the clearances on the 3rd and 4th synchonizers or they will not work. I found this out on an NP420 I worked on. There were other bearings that you needed to set the end play on (tapered rollers) IIRC. But it's been a number of years and the memory is the first thing to go.