Progress Thread 3550 Transmission Fixing Job

I've finally gotten the time and money to play with this transmission. Someone asked for pics, so I'm going to post them.

New record, I had the transmission out an on the bench by myself in an hour and 22 minutes.



Went out and found a large set of snap ring pliers to get the big snap rings out. Ended up having to modify them with the grinder and the file to get the snap rings under the synchro hubs.



I reached into the case to pull the reverse assembly out, and a giant aluminium burr from the case went up under my thumb nail. This is unbelievably painful. It's healing ok though.



Radiating cracks on 3 out of the 4 bolt holes for the retainer. Talked to 3 different people as to why this happened, and got 3 different answers. I think Bob Hanlon gave me the best answer which was "Eh, Tremec didn't cast the forward part of the case as thick as they should have."







Everyone but one of the large roller bearings was toast. All out of round and stuff. The front of the case clearly indicated the race had been free spinning.

One of the gears on the countershaft had sheered the woodruff key, free spun, and then seized again. Thankfully the masters at Southern Gear in Smyrna, GA, were able to get the gear off and back on again with their monster press.



$758 worth of goodies from Hanlon Motorsports. New 3/4 sliders, bronze fork pads, steel 3/4 fork, 2 stock blocker rings for 1st and 5th, and carbon fiber lined blocker rings for 2,3,4. Also a few other miscellaneous parts.



It's all apart.



The 1/2 slider was all burred up and barely moved on the hub. The 3/4 slider seemed ok, but Linda Hanlon said the hardened sliders really need new sliders to be optimum.



3/4 hub all apart. The blocker rings were pretty messed up.



This is where the bastard snap rings are; on the 1/2 hub. I finally got it all apart, and I picked up the last part today.


Should have this thing back together soon. Just really tied up with other things now.

Kurt