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Good day all..
I am in the final stages of rebuilding my mazda m50dr1 ( 1989 2.9 ltr 5spd).. catastrophic melt down.. replaced, all bearings, input shaft.. (oil slinger melted to the input shaft very cool) there was NO front bearing.. any way replaced input shaft, 3rd gear, counter shaft, all syncro's, and all bearings, and both nuts..
my issue is this, I wanted to test if you will the tranny before we stuffed it back in. So I put on the top shift cover and mounted the HURST shifter to it just to run thru the gears... as soon as i put the cover on it locks up- slides or slightly engages the 1st gear syncros,so it is kind of like being in 1st all the time. I can shift thru the gears and it appears to be changing gears it the rotations on the input corrospond to the tail shaft etc. but I can never really get to in to neutral after that.
I have looked at everything a multiple of times and cannot find whre I might be off..
any suggestions would be helpful at this point.
I am in the final stages of rebuilding my mazda m50dr1 ( 1989 2.9 ltr 5spd).. catastrophic melt down.. replaced, all bearings, input shaft.. (oil slinger melted to the input shaft very cool) there was NO front bearing.. any way replaced input shaft, 3rd gear, counter shaft, all syncro's, and all bearings, and both nuts..
my issue is this, I wanted to test if you will the tranny before we stuffed it back in. So I put on the top shift cover and mounted the HURST shifter to it just to run thru the gears... as soon as i put the cover on it locks up- slides or slightly engages the 1st gear syncros,so it is kind of like being in 1st all the time. I can shift thru the gears and it appears to be changing gears it the rotations on the input corrospond to the tail shaft etc. but I can never really get to in to neutral after that.
I have looked at everything a multiple of times and cannot find whre I might be off..
any suggestions would be helpful at this point.
