Jeremy_K
Registered User
I was bored tonight so I decided to take the covers off my 5 speed that's gonna eventually swap into my car. I got the tranny from a junkyard car that had 220K on the clock so I have no idea what condition it's in internally. I took the shifter off because it was really sloppy and missing a bolt. I intend on replacing it with a ripper anyway. then I took off the small dogbone shaped plate just forward of the shifter. Everything looked pretty good in there. Then I took the big cover off so I could see the gears. Nothing looks worn from the outside and the fluid was very clean with no shavings in the bottom of the case. The input shaft has a little bit of play if you wiggle it. I would guess it needs a new seal. Can you tell the condition of the tranny without tearing it down? I don't want to mess with ordering an entire rebuild kit if I don't really need it. For all I know the thing could've already been rebuilt.