Rebuilding a T5 - Need advice before we begin.

[Rick 91GT]

Originally posted by 2FastLX:
Anyone?

I guess nobody else rebuilds their T-5's?

Well Kevin I rebuild mine and it took 4 yeqrs and around 100K miles of abuse so I guess I did something right. I didn't use a dail indicator to make sure the shaft was lined up properly. I made sure the gears had a good mess pattern to them, like you would do with a rear. I was told by D&D that if you replace the imput shaft to replace the cluster gear..so you don't have new running agaist old. Well I didn't do that 4 years ago in in worked fine so although I believe what Don Jr was telling me I had good sucess last time. The bearing will need to be pressed on the imput shaft, so make sure you have access to that but I guess you'll just take it to work I got a schematic from Ford and went to town, it is tricky getting the forks to line up at the end but take your time and patience and you won't have any problems. I will rebuild mine next week I am waiting for parts. Don't forget to change the sleeve and seal in the tail of the tranny, you can get them locally at a Ford dealer for less then $12.00 total.

As far as re-surfacing a fly wheel they use a surface grinder to take off the heat marks and crud to give you a nice new surface. I am unsure as to how much is taken off but it isn't much.

As far as tips go shim the imput shaft tight as a virgin on prom night . The tighter the better, this will amke it last I had almost no end play in mine, upgrade to a steel retainer, and I cleaned up the gears with my die grider the 3rd gear was a little hairy so I just dressed it up so there were no rough edges, didn't change the tooth pitch or anything. Stay with ATF the sythetics are junk!


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