Greetings..and..Transmission

[GeoHacker]

that bearing is bad. no bearings are allowed to make noise unless dry.

next is measure and document the magic gap. with feeler gauges.

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if it shifted ok, then the synchro's are ok
but check the sychro gap next.

Thanks for the checkpoints and suggestions.

I can spin that bearing fast as I can, and though it is not totally filled with oil I guess due to draining, it makes a racket that it clearly should not. The output shaft bearing is quiet. So, if the needle bearing is still good for 5th, I would hope that might explain my banshee wail when that area was loaded more.

My gap is tight there at main bearing land, a .005 won't even go in between either side of it. So either I'm poking it in the wrong location, or I'll have to pick up a more precise feeler set.

The rebuild kit came with the 5 syncros, so I was planning to replace all of them. Only shifting problems I ever had was that first was occasionally hard to get into when stopped, you'd have to go into reverse a little, or ease it in (might have been clutch not disengaging fully). Sometimes reverse grinded going in, but possible I was too fast on the action.

The sycros look rather better than I expected for all the noise I've heard from them over the years and blowing a shift here and there. But the thing shifts every time reliably in general, no popping out of gear. Last time I took it for inspection though, first shifted different after (a little harder), like they forced it into first instead of doing my trick.

Setting up my official take-apart table now.