Lost fifth gear today Oh, No cant find archives

[Nate Skate]

Lost fifth gear and know that I have seen much on this in the past. But when I searched under "fifth gear" I got nothing. Got a little bit under "5th gear" Where should I look? I would like to fix this myself if it is the nut. Need to replace clutch also. Guess I could kill two birds one stone.



Help?

Thanx in advance.

 

[GAmes]

Deezul 1 just did that last week. Replaced his clutch and fixed his 5th gear. Look thru the posts, you will find one with his signature and you can e-mail him.

 

[F Simkowski (In Memory)]

Look in the links... . Standard Transmission

 

[jrobinson1]

I don't know where there are I too have seen them. What do you need to know I just had mine open a short time ago. If your clutch isn't ready yet I would try to leave the transmission in I think there's enough room, actually I know there's enough room I did it to think of it.



You take the driveline out, the transfer case 6 bolts from the transmission then there are 6 or eight on the back cover of the transmission.



Make sure the oil is out I tried it with some in.



The nut is right there on the shaft. From what I understand the nut backs off and the gear just slips off the spline and no other damage occurs, just no 5th. Replace with the $30 nut w/ set screws and your off again.



I think I saw some talk of fully splined shafts to replace, sounds expensive. Don't know if that was the shaft the meant by saying fully splined.





HTH

james

 

[Deezul1]

I just did mine (with lotsa help,thanks guys) . I also got the nut as tight as possible with a hefty air impact gun and then used a dull chisel and the BIG hammer and drove the nut around another 1/4 turn. I took a large center punch and a BIG hammer and staked the nut to the shaft about 8-10 times in addition to the new split type nut and locktite. Keep up the search for 5th gear nut info there is quite a bit in there including the fix I used and the guy that did that got another 200. 000 miles out of it.

 

[Joseph Donnelly]

1-800-std-tran or www.standardtransmission.com



Changing the nut only is a temporary fix. Their mainshaft/nut kit is a permanent fix. I suggest getting their small parts kit also to have all the snap rings and little stuff you might lose or might be worn.

 

[Sled Puller]

Just North of you near Columbus,Ohio, is one of the best NV4500 rebuild shops in the country. They will have all the parts you need.



www.enterpriseengine.com



You may want to look into the clutches they have, also.

 

[Turbo Thom]

Nate Skate:

One thing about the "nut" fix, I had fifth gear fixed 3 times. Once the thing backed off then the next time the nut " stripped "off the the shaft. The threads on the shaft were ok but the ones on the nut were gone. I assumed the steel from that was in the transmission. Dodge didn't think that was a problem. Then the transmission burned up a 196K.



The nut fix does not work.



. . Preston. .

 

[Nate Skate]

compiled help?

Thought i saw a web page once that was built of compiled threads for particular problems. I wonder if there is anything like that for the fifth gear fix. Pics would be great. Probably asking too much.