Mines had hear whine since I owned it. You can hear it in 3rd and 4th. Pulled it down a few weekends ago and changed all the bearings and added new fluid. The end result....sounds as bad as it ever did. I think the gears just set into a pattern over time that you really can't do anything about. The only thing that's going to clear up the whine for me at this point is a whole new gearset/cluster. No thanks...I'll buy a new trans before that.
Congrats, Nik! Great work. What gears are in the rear? I forgot and you don't have them in your sig.
It's not like this is an age-related thing, since this came about the night I was at the track. Transmission was quiet beforehand.
I dunno, I'll save judgement until I have a chance to yank it out of the car. If it's bad, I may just rebuild it with Z-spec parts and stick it back in. If it's not terrible, I'll just deal with the whine.
I'm no tranmission expert by any means, but I do deal with gearboxes pretty regularly, and I can tell you some of the things that cause whine are improper location, ie CL of shaft to shaft improperly located giving you poor contact, or excessive lash. Don't the T5s have a bad rep for the aluminum bearing fits opening up or distorting, causing shaft deflection? I know I've read somewhere that there is too long a distance between bearings in them which leads to shaft deflection in 3rd causing gear breakage. I don't know, but I do know I've broken a lot of them, and hopefully the TKO I replaced mine with hangs in there.
Can someone teach me how to wear a scarf like that?
What is your birth year?
Not me, but if you figure it out, I'll show you how to clap like that...
So that's the early world class T5, right? I think they were rated around 265lbs/ft of torque or something to that effect. So yeah...could be on borrowed time with that kind of driving?1986
So that's the early world class T5, right? I think they were rated around 265lbs/ft of torque or something to that effect. So yeah...could be on borrowed time with that kind of driving?
Who is this guy?
Nice to see you still lurking.
Yeah, I still pop in from time to time. I've got a new Mustang, of course.
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