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I have two steel balls, one is bigger than the other. I know one is for the 5th-reverse detent (I think the bigger one is it), just found the other one in the front of the rear compartment tonight. Not positive which is for the detent and what the other is for. Parts book shows 99611-2500 three times, once for the afore mentioned detent and two other times floating in space. I think one is for a speedo gear which I don’t have being 4wd, the other looks like it is on the countershaft in front of the rear bearing on the diagram, no idea what for. No other balls pictured which makes it weird they show two/three of the same part number and I have two different sizes. .

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I have lots of ideas, like maybe the big one got together with the other one that is supposed to be in your trans and they made a little baby, and that's why the other one you found is smaller.

Also, that 5/R detent ball is not fun to put back in without taking it all back apart. Not impossible, just not fun.
 
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adsm08 said:
Also, that 5/R detent ball is not fun to put back in without taking it all back apart. Not impossible, just not fun.
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Yeah, it pretty much sucks.

I put the big ball (roughly a .25" dia) with the spring as I tore it down so right now it is together with the spring and the 5th/reverse syncro is all put together and installed.

Really hoping that is where the big ball goes and I don't have to take it back apart to get the little one where it needs to go. No mention of installing it in the R2 book that I can see, in the R1 book they mention a "lockball" around the spacer between fifth and reverse but no pictures or insight about installation in the book.
 
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Fished thru a 1+hr youtube video that I watched a few months ago, looks like it goes under the bushing for the overdrive gear on the countershaft and kinda ties it to the countershaft.

It would make sense for the smaller one to do that, it would have still been together as I bumbled my way thru taking the syncro out.
 
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Transman304 said:
May need to look here.

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I have no idea what transmission that is but doesn't look like my M5OD.



96611-2000 ball hovering by the countershaft actually goes on the other side of 7121 bearing between 7173 quill and the countershaft.

Its location was throwing me off, there is nothing for it to do on that side of the bearing and if it was there there is now way for it to fall out and end up in the rear compartment.
 
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