A couple years back my auto decided to give out under 11psi so I persued the auto to manuel swap in my 84ae. I went with an 87 turbo tranny, 87 turbo driveshaft, 88 turbo flywheel, and an 88n/a companion flange. The transmission had 87k on it when I purchased it from a salvage yard. It was resting upright on the input shaft. The flywheel had an unkown mileage but was able to be resurfaced. It was matted to an ACT Street clutch using the ACT bearing.
(Don't know if all this info matters but I'm putting everything out there to make sure I've covered my tracks well and haven't missed anything obvious)
Ever since it was installed the tranny has had a little bit of play. It was never enough to really detract from the driving untill recently. It will cluck, chatter and buck depending on the way you drive it and will always have some evidence of slack. It really makes it hard to finesse the car. therefore I pulled the tranny and had it rebuilt with new syncro's, seals and bearings (New release bearing to replace the ACT one also since I heard they wern't that great). Put it back in about a week ago and the problems still there... maybe even worse.
I put it on jackstands th eother day and had the guy who rebuilt the tranny listen to it and drive it. He said everything looked and felt normal besides a slight bit of backlash from the rear end. He said the noise was normal gear runout and the tranny was fine, just loud and slack. I don't want to leave it this way so I'm coming to you guru's for your recomendations.
A. buy another used fs5r30a and transfer the rebuild kit (Min $450)
B. purchase some spare z32 trannies a friend of mine has and transfer the gear sets to my case and use my rebuild kit on the new gears. (Min 300)
Catch here is that something in both of those trannies he has are broken.
C. Pull the T-5 out of my parts car and build the heck out of it (1095 min)
D. find my old auto, build the heck out of it and throw it back in (900 min)
So really only option A or B are viable. I just wanted to see what you guys experiences where.
The big question, can I transfer over the z32 gears to the z31 mainshaft using the z32 countershaft and the z31 rebuild kit and syncro's?
I was worried at one point that my mainshaft was bent snc eit had been resting upright on it at the junkyard but now the theory seems to be gear runout.
Sorry for the long post but I've already pulled and rebuilt once and I've about broken my piggy bank. I'm looking for a final solution on this one.
(Don't know if all this info matters but I'm putting everything out there to make sure I've covered my tracks well and haven't missed anything obvious)
Ever since it was installed the tranny has had a little bit of play. It was never enough to really detract from the driving untill recently. It will cluck, chatter and buck depending on the way you drive it and will always have some evidence of slack. It really makes it hard to finesse the car. therefore I pulled the tranny and had it rebuilt with new syncro's, seals and bearings (New release bearing to replace the ACT one also since I heard they wern't that great). Put it back in about a week ago and the problems still there... maybe even worse.
I put it on jackstands th eother day and had the guy who rebuilt the tranny listen to it and drive it. He said everything looked and felt normal besides a slight bit of backlash from the rear end. He said the noise was normal gear runout and the tranny was fine, just loud and slack. I don't want to leave it this way so I'm coming to you guru's for your recomendations.
A. buy another used fs5r30a and transfer the rebuild kit (Min $450)
B. purchase some spare z32 trannies a friend of mine has and transfer the gear sets to my case and use my rebuild kit on the new gears. (Min 300)
Catch here is that something in both of those trannies he has are broken.
C. Pull the T-5 out of my parts car and build the heck out of it (1095 min)
D. find my old auto, build the heck out of it and throw it back in (900 min)
So really only option A or B are viable. I just wanted to see what you guys experiences where.
The big question, can I transfer over the z32 gears to the z31 mainshaft using the z32 countershaft and the z31 rebuild kit and syncro's?
I was worried at one point that my mainshaft was bent snc eit had been resting upright on it at the junkyard but now the theory seems to be gear runout.
Sorry for the long post but I've already pulled and rebuilt once and I've about broken my piggy bank. I'm looking for a final solution on this one.
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