possible plastic gears in manual tranny's?

[babytruck]

I am pretty skeptical about what I have heard but do any years of ranger have plastic or any non-metalic gears in the manual transmissions? I just want to know if this guy is full of it or not? I know that old joke "they'll make them rubber next year" Do I possible need to educate this guy?

 

[partsguy84823]

They're all metal. I see you're from Olathe... I know the area well...

 

[Original_Ranger84]

Yeah they are all metal, there is no reason to put plastic gears in a transmission. maybe one of those wind up smart cars or somthing. But The only non metal part in a ranger that I can think of is the Nylon timing gear on the 2.8L which I believe you can get metal replacments.

 

[LittleHorse]

the speedometer driven gear at the end of the speedo cable is plastic.

Other than that, no.

 

[partsguy84823]

I know that in a lot of Mopar automatic transaxles (the minivans, mitsubishi galants/eclipses with the 6g72 or 4g, etc...) they will use hardened, metal-impregnated nylon plantaries. They run really really low apply pressure so they can :cough: get away with it. It turns out, that is is not a very good idea.

 

[babytruck]

thanks i saw an add on cL for a ranger a guy wants to sell he said the motor is good but the trannys bad thinks he has plastic gears and that he sheared them off. I have a manual ranger myself but havent grinded any gears i guess i could have gone out and grinded them alittle to answer my own question....

 

[Jason]

Many of these transmissions would have been just as well off with plastic, but I assure you they are using metal gears.

 

[Chance]

This thread sucks.

And is about to get worse.

The guy is a moron, you have metal gears.

 

[Original_Ranger84]

This thread sucks.

And is about to get worse.

The guy is a moron, you have metal gears.

Your mom got worse after she said she had metal... oh uh...

Yeah tell the guy he is a tard, and be done.

 

[daniel3507]

I know that in a lot of Mopar automatic transaxles (the minivans, mitsubishi galants/eclipses with the 6g72 or 4g, etc...) they will use hardened, metal-impregnated nylon plantaries. They run really really low apply pressure so they can :cough: get away with it. It turns out, that is is not a very good idea.

Chevy used plastic in some of their transmissions too. His Camaro SS has plastic parts in it haha

 

[Hopman]

Chevy used plastic in some of their transmissions too. His Camaro SS has plastic parts in it haha

My '91 Shilouette, one of the GM "Dustbuster" triplets, had all sorts of plastic parts.

... the body, at least.

 

[babytruck]

haha i told him its done
he doesnt believe me what the eff ever!
and chance your thread sucks

 

[Chance]

Oooohhhh!!!!

Good one!

*runs home crying*

Yeah, well your face sucks!

Take that.

Whatcha gonna do now?

But seriously, just pm jason if you got a problem with his siggy. I couldn't let it turn into a political thread.

 

[babytruck]

alright i edited it i didnt want you to take it the wrong way
alright ill pm him

 

[Chance]

It's cool, I didn't take it personally. I got thicker skin than some.

It was an opportunity to have some fun

And yes, my thread about frosted flakes DOES suck

Most of my threads do.