v8only said:while your trans is out, inspect the input shaft retainer. If it's grooved AT ALL, do yourself a favor, and borrow the money for a steel unit, it's less than $50, buy from a repitable place only such as hanlon motorsports.
when putting a new bearing retainer gasket on, be sure to not forget to use the old shims, so that you don't have excessive input shaft play. (you can't miss them)
If you have a leak, or slight leak right now, FIX IT. You're gonna mess up your new clutch and soak it with fluid....i've been there too, soaked the damn thing like a sponge. You don't want ANY leaks in the bell area, thats why your trans must have a good seal there, and you must locktite the flywheel bolts and use a good rear main, so oil doesn't leak either.
fixing the leak is easy. My bro had this same problem also. He put a spec clutch in, 600 miles later, the trans developed a SLIGHT front seal leak. We pulled the t5 out and replaced with a tremec 3550, but too late, the clutch already had trans fluid on it and was no good.
A few months later, my father was borrowing my mustang and blew out my fresh t5 because of a REAR trans seal leak he didn't follow up on and add fluid (i've blown a million trannies!) so I was deseperate for a used trans. I re used my bro's old one, just unbolted the bearing retainer, replaced the seal, put the shims back on, and bolted on a steel retainer, and it hasn't leaked a drop since.
just be sure you take care of all your tranny problems, or your clutch job will be for nothing
if memory serves me right, I used silicone too when bolting it up
Daggar said:Do yourself a favor and buy a rear main engine seal while you're at the parts store. Even if you don't use it. If you get in there and see a small rear main leak at least you'll have the thing to put in. Might save you some aggrevation.
v8only said:input shaft bearing retainer for a t5 from 19xx
not sure what napa will have. Re use your old one if not grooved
easy to replace, it's right on the front of the trans, goes over the input shaft, bolts down with a few bolts, unbolt, replace seal, silicone bolt back on.
v8only said:sounds good, it's a 95 t5?
mooktank said:when you guys replace a rear main seal, do you take off the oil pan and replace all the oil pan gaskets too because i think my tranny is leaking as well as my rear main. Only a tiny bit though. When i take my trans out to rebuild it (its not ready yet) Ill definitely make sure everything is clean as a whistle. I just hate gaskets so much and would use RTV for everything if it would work.
v8only said:the same??
not positive, I've never gone to napa for a bearing retainer. I would think they are, let me know, do your parts search ahead of time and see if there are two different part #'s
i just searched through autozones catalog, not sure if parts stores stock something like this, check on it, you may have to get this overnighted from somewhere. Are you close to any mustang shops?
this isn't a "common" do it yourselfer thing, so not sure if the parts stores would stock the seal or not
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