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I have four M5ODs torn down right now - an '88 4 cylinder, two 93/94 4.0's, and one mid 90's 3.0. As you can probably guess, I am doing the lower gear mod on the two 4.0 cases.
I have run into a slight hangup with the '88 trans. It has a 36 tooth 5th/reverse synchro ring. The synchro itself is junk, along with the slider, and other parts... just very worn overall. The other three transmissions have 30 tooth synchro rings and at least two 5th/reverse clusters are in good shape.
Can I simply replace the whole 36t cluster with a newer 30t cluster? This basically just determines which bearing/synchro kit I buy, plus I would rather use good parts on hand if I can instead of replacing some.
It appears that it will work fine, tooth count is the same on everything else, I'm just hoping someone else has run into this and can confirm it for sure.
I have run into a slight hangup with the '88 trans. It has a 36 tooth 5th/reverse synchro ring. The synchro itself is junk, along with the slider, and other parts... just very worn overall. The other three transmissions have 30 tooth synchro rings and at least two 5th/reverse clusters are in good shape.
Can I simply replace the whole 36t cluster with a newer 30t cluster? This basically just determines which bearing/synchro kit I buy, plus I would rather use good parts on hand if I can instead of replacing some.
It appears that it will work fine, tooth count is the same on everything else, I'm just hoping someone else has run into this and can confirm it for sure.