t-5 rebuild. self or not

[crazypete]

In my time, I have rebuilt 2 engines and 1 AOD in my basement and installed my own gears, so I consider myself to be a decently "seasoned" verteran of mechanical affairs and I found the T-5 rebuild to be extremely difficult. The case is dominated by snaprings and each set of gears on the cluster needs to have a certaibn preload. Compared to this, the AOD rebuild was a cakewalk. It's not difficult but it requires a few relatively special tools (snapring plyers are an absolute must) and lots of precision work otherwise you end up with something that shifts exactly as bad or worse than before the rebuild. Get a "professionally rebuilt" one. The parts yard near here sells them for about 800 bucks which totally beats the 2200 aamco want to charge for a rebuild of a t-5