t-5 gear pics

[pwcracer]

I posted awhile ago that I left my stang at a friends house and he called me a few hours later and said "It won't go into reverse!" When I came to pick up my car, I noticed the shifter would click into reverse, but the car wouldn't move.. Every other gear was fine. I brought the t-5 to a mechanic and he sent me these pics (sorry for the low quality)

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The gear is destroyed and the funny thing is, my friend said he didn't do anything to the car.. He just backed it out into the street to park it. This sucks since i just had the t-5 rebuilt about 6k ago..

Not sure what I am going to do at this point...

 

[66sprint6]

yuck...sorry bout your luck man. I spent a couple weeks with no reverse in my 66...just had to be smart about where you parked LOL
Matt

 

[Mustang5L5]

Hard to make out in the pic, but is that the countergear (expensive fix) or the reverse idler gear (cheap fix)

Very hard to break reverse light that....unless you do a reverse burnout. Not saying your friend did this, but it's kinda what i would suspect

 

[NIKwoaC]

Hard to make out in the pic, but is that the countergear (expensive fix) or the reverse idler gear (cheap fix)

Very hard to break reverse light that....unless you do a reverse burnout. Not saying your friend did this, but it's kinda what i would suspect

In my experience, when a gear fails, both the driven and the driver take damage, regardless of which was actually grenade'd. Even though the picture quality is pretty poor, the bottom one looks like the gear in the foreground has some rough edges, too.

Also, I'm thinking its possible that he just did a poor job of clutching into reverse, chunking off the corner of the gear, OR he was rolling forward and hastily shifted into reverse. Because reverse isn't syncronized in these trannys, you kind of have to be careful, as reverse gear teeth do all the work.