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close, but no cigari am guessing he is putting an hd in
thanksSweet looking ride.. Your skills are impressive!
Can you clean up and reuse the old gears and synchros with the new shift forks and case? Basically take the best pieces of both transmissions and build a new one.All I got was dark cell phone pics of the gear stacks. They looked brand new, the syncros and everything look awesome.
just reuse the gears and synchros , change the forks to ford ones ( an M5OD is an M5OD , all the internals are the same ) and slap her back in , there should be no damage to the gears or anything , as there is no actual gear metal to metal contact in the trans except the fork to collarI got the tranny out and apart. I found out the shift forks were worn ground down for some reason which wouldn't let me push the collar far enough to get into gear. When I drained the fluid it looked like silver milk, there was so much aluminum powder in the fluid it was gritty. The PO had the tranny rebuilt less than 1000 miles ago, it looks like they put shift forks out of a 3.0 or 2.3 tranny in my 4.0, because they werent big enough to fit over the collars properly, but I am not sure. I will have another tranny this weekend so I can compare.
-plumcrazy
All I got was dark cell phone pics of the gear stacks. They looked brand new, the syncros and everything look awesome.
I could but I have a different plan since I already have the trans off and apart.Can you clean up and reuse the old gears and synchros with the new shift forks and case? Basically take the best pieces of both transmissions and build a new one.
Ford ones? I thought all M50D's were made by Mazda? Are the earlier shift forks made of steel instead of aluminum or something?just reuse the gears and synchros , change the forks to ford ones ( an M5OD is an M5OD , all the internals are the same ) and slap her back in , there should be no damage to the gears or anything , as there is no actual gear metal to metal contact in the trans except the fork to collar