my throwout bearing retainer is all torn up and i was wondering where i can get a good one from because i bought one from summit racing and it ws wrong then i sent it back and they sent me a different one and it was wrong again so i am goin to get a refund and buy one somewhere else.
Were the ones you got from Summit a completly different design, or did they simply not fit over the output shaft and bearing? If that is the case, I would be willing to bet you have a 2.3l T5 in your car.
I ran into that when I bought my car, it had a T5 out of a 2.3. The retainers I bought wouldn't fit, so I measured the diameter of the output shaft and found out it was not the correct size for a 5.0. I went to the local boneyard and pulled a T5 from a GT...only to get it to the shop and find out that IT was also a T5 originally out of a 2.3. So there are 5.0 Mustangs out there with 2.3 T5s in them. The only difference is the pilot bearing, which you will need to replace if you get the correct T5.
In other words, you can either find a retainer from a 2.3 T5, or go get a T5 made for the 5.0 and a new pilot bearing.....IF that is the problem you have.
the shim and race were to big to go in the one i bought from summit i didnt even try to put it over the shaft because i tried to put the the race amd shim in it and it didnt work.
Yea, sounds like you have a tranny out of a 2.5 in it.
The problem is that nobody makes bearing retainers for that output shaft, so you have to find a used one....that was my delima. I would have kept the tranny, but I couldn't find a good retainer. I tried a new OEM retainer for a 5.0 T5, and I had the same problem. I ended up just buying a rebuilt WC T5.