Why are all T-5 trannys garbage?

Either buy a shifter with shift stops & dont miss gears or get a Tremec !!!!!

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The 86 I just bought is the first car I have that is a stick. I don't count the SVO, I never drove it, just sat on it and sold it for a profit. When easy driving, it is fine. Under acceleration, it grinds or "bangs" between 1st and 2nd. Is this a bang of death or just take it easy on it?

RYC CUKR said:

By the time I sold my 91 the T-5 had seen better days, mostly because of abuse on my part. It had the second gear grind and 3rd was getting to be tough.

I have taken it alot easier on the t-5 in my 88 and it shows. If you gave me the choice between the T-5 in my 88 and the 3650 in my Mach 1 I would take the t-5 everytime. A T-5 in good shape has got to be one of the smoothest shifting transmissions I have ever driven.

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I take it you've never driven a Honda.



For real though, there has GOT to be something wrong with me. I've killed 3 T-5's over the course of 5 years. This last one is Astro-built though, so hopefully I don't have to try to torque those top two bolts down again for a while, knowwhaddimean??!!!1!!

The T-5 in Frankenstang's notch was theoretically replaced about the same time the motor was rebuilt at 150k. The car now has about 265k (or more) on it. It's survived several runs down Firebird and about 22k miles under me, 6 months or so of Frankenstang's weekend floggings of it, the year or two that some douchebag Fast and the Furious wannabe 16-year-old kid that had it before me, and the surely constant, relentless beatings at the hands of its original owner, who had stripped the car down to the bare nubbins and given it a ghetto-cheap drag setup (interior half gone, A/C gone, other stuff deleted, lil' tires up front and fatties in back, Eibach drag spring set, half an exhaust, etc.).

Only thing I ever replaced was the input shaft and bearing when I did the clutch and upgraded to a steel bearing retainer ... and I only changed the shaft before I honestly couldn't get the old bearing off the stock shaft.

That thing STILL shifts damned nice. I miss it. (But I still have visitation rights. )

NikwoaC said:

I take it you've never driven a Honda.

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Never