Hey guys,
I just spent the entire day tooling around town tearing through every tranny places stock I could find looking for the 3rd main gear for an fs5r30a tranny rebuild I'm working on. No luck.
My gear overall is in great shape (Very little wear) however one of the splines that match up with the synchronizers is chipped off. Its the part that looks just like the synchro but its part of the gear assembly (Theres like 40 of them around the outer edge). I've been told by 2 tranny shops that this is fine and they'd put it back together just like it is. Many transmissions don't even use a full ring of splines anyway to match up to their synchro's. However the guy whos rebuilding it has told me he would recomend replacing it. My local Nissan mechanic told me they'd probably replace it also. They said it could be fine but he didn't want it not to be ok and something happen to my car after he'd said it would work fine.
A new 3rd gear from nissan runs about 115-160 bucks and can't be here for another week at the earliest (Part is on back order). Thats freakin 40% of what I payed for the whole dang tranny in the first place! The ZNationals are next weekend and I'm set on driving, I'd be royally pissed if my car was still in pieces and I had to ride down with someone.
Would you guys A. Put it back in as is or B. order the new part from nissan dishing out a fortune in the process. Or does anyone have any experience with this and know for sure if it will be fine or what?
Thanks!
I just spent the entire day tooling around town tearing through every tranny places stock I could find looking for the 3rd main gear for an fs5r30a tranny rebuild I'm working on. No luck.
My gear overall is in great shape (Very little wear) however one of the splines that match up with the synchronizers is chipped off. Its the part that looks just like the synchro but its part of the gear assembly (Theres like 40 of them around the outer edge). I've been told by 2 tranny shops that this is fine and they'd put it back together just like it is. Many transmissions don't even use a full ring of splines anyway to match up to their synchro's. However the guy whos rebuilding it has told me he would recomend replacing it. My local Nissan mechanic told me they'd probably replace it also. They said it could be fine but he didn't want it not to be ok and something happen to my car after he'd said it would work fine.
A new 3rd gear from nissan runs about 115-160 bucks and can't be here for another week at the earliest (Part is on back order). Thats freakin 40% of what I payed for the whole dang tranny in the first place! The ZNationals are next weekend and I'm set on driving, I'd be royally pissed if my car was still in pieces and I had to ride down with someone.
Would you guys A. Put it back in as is or B. order the new part from nissan dishing out a fortune in the process. Or does anyone have any experience with this and know for sure if it will be fine or what?
Thanks!
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