Getrag rebuild project

[Paychk]

Well it started well... that is till I opened the case up. I found the input gear & cluster gear shot. The input has a few nicks in the edges of the teeth, nothing that wouldn't clean up. The cluster has a total of 7 teeth with chunks missing, the rest of the teeth are scared badly. So I ordered new gears from Man-Trans in Florida. The magnet in the case and the trans filter caught a lot of filings and the pieces of gear teeth, I think that is what saved it. The P. O. said he had it rebuild, I would like to meet this person and ask them if they had stock in a RTV company, because it had bits of RTV every where inside, to include the bearings. Any way I hope to finnish it up next weekend, it would be nice to drive it and not hear the gnashing of tore up gear teeth.



Readers gallery last two pictures



Cluster gear



transmission magnet

 

[ARhine]

hope mine doesn't look like that when I pull it out here soon.



Was this one really noisy? Mine is just making some slight buzzing in the shifter and some bearing noise in nuetral.

 

[Paychk]

Very noisy in 2/3, quiet in 4, slightly noisy in 5. I couldn't hear it because of the exhaust drone (broken mount at the bell housing). When I rebuilt the clutch I found/fixed the exhaust and that was when I could hear the transmission. It took awhile to get the necessary tools & parts for the transmission rebuild. The sad thing is, I don't know how long it has been chewing itself up, I should have fixed the exhaust a couple years ago instead of turning up the stereo. Some days your the bug, some your the windshield.