When is it whining?

Putting this to bed.

Trans arrived on time as per scheduled from the tracking number. Container looked as good as one could expect. No tears, punctures, gouges, etc.

Inside the box: Trans sitting comfortably it its foam halves. Sharpies like shift levers were poked through the plastic bag the trans was in. Hard to conceive THAT wouldn't happen. No biggie.

Some paranoia ensued.

With the trans in neutral, I could spin the input shaft fine. I could not STOP the output shaft with a finger stuck between it and the output seal. Probably another no biggie. Put it in ANY gear, and the input shaft would move from hard clunk to clunk, hard stops with a good 30º movement of the shaft. I thought: 1. That's a long ways to move the input, a LOT of play. 2. What's the clunks?

I'm not asking those questions here. They did come to mind as I was hand-clunking it in any gear. The reverse lever was 'forward' through all this.

I would expect a newly rebuilt trans to be pretty snug, minus the 30º movement of the input shaft. Do keep in mind that what I might expect is based on no knowledge of the process whatsoever.

At some point, something changed. I was just moving from gear to gear and trying to spin the input shaft. All Of A Sudden...the clunk-stops stopped, the trans moved, I could feel the 'gears' happen at the tailshaft.

Paranoia: Rectified/resolved. ...or just plain gone.

SO: The trans got here in really good shape (the box). The trans certainly is purty, and it spins around as it should with the necessary changes from innie to outie.

It's going in this weekend. If there is anything to note about it, I'll start another thread.

Thanks to everyone for their input(s). It all worked out well to this end.

The End