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Well, a few days ago one of the parts of my car wore out. It's got 213k miles on it (at least, odo went bad at 204+). I've done lots of work on the car since I got it two years ago and I guess if it had to be something, this isn't the worst thing that could have happened.

Generally when I have had transmission problems in the past with cars I'd take it to a specialist. There's a local guy I trust and whenever I see a diagram of a transmission it just looks like a swiss watch with all those gears and stuff, so I've been intimidated to try anything in there.

With this car I promised myself I'd do all the work on it (since it was purchased as a project anyway) and I've learned to do lots of new stuff from clutch replacement to carpeting to some electrical things to seat re-upholstery and all have been interesting and fun to do (more or less ).

So now down to the work at hand: The other day the stick in my car didn't give me any resistance when I tried to go into the 1-r shift plane. It had previously been really weak when returning from 4-5 to 2-3, so I think it was wearing out and it finally went. There is also a leaf-type spring that I've read usually wears out for the reverse lock-out function as well, so I plan to replace both of these items.

I've had no shifting issues so I don't plan to reinvent the wheel and although some would say it's foolish with this many miles, I don't plan to buy a rebuilt or even rebuild it all myself.

So my notes will be here as I work through it, please feel free to comment if or offer up advice or assistance.

Here's an annotated and slightly cleaned up diagram from the WSM.

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Posted 09-20-2008 at 08:42 AM by Mike Frye
I plan to replace the input bearing (not shown) as well as bearings #42 and #46 as well as everything marked marked 'gasket' (5) or 'seal' in this diagram (17, 19, 34, 49) or O-ring (31, 35) which I'm hoping are all part of the kit.

Once I get the part numbers for all of these I'll add them as well as pics as I work my way through.

Wish me luck!

BTW- I'm working from the 'Manual Transmissions for Eight Cylinder Model Series' training manual that came with Jim Morehouse's CDs (thanks Jim!) as well as WSM pages 34-1 through 35-20-something. I've also checked out several threads on RL that were extremely helpful as was Errka, WallyP, Jim B, GregB and others so far. I'm also expecting to get some help (already got some advice and offers of help) from Kevin who is a local guy and married to WOR calendar girl Leslie. He's also a transmission guy and offered to take care of this for me, so Kevin if I show up at your door with a box of gears and stuff, I hope the offer is still good.
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