2.216VTurbo
01-23-2006, 01:00 PM
Finally getting around to building the 523/OBX set up for my Grandma car;)
This weekend Pat P. and I (he has all the good Miller Special Trans tools-you da man Pat:thumb: ) dissasemble the trans and found it to be in really good shape overall for a 175k+ trans, gonna need only bearings/races/shims to make it race worthy.
Often we see the Nylon shift pads for the lower gears damaged or just plain missing, but for whatever reason on this trans they are fine, it's the 5th gear pad that is beat! Like totally 'melted'. You can tell it took a bunch of heat because the nylon is all balled up on the trailing edge. We were trying to speculate how 5th takes such a beating and what we came up with was maybe the original owner of this trans (boneyard piece) rested their hand on the shifter exerting slight pressure for extended periods while the car was in 5th.
Anyone else seen this? Ideas, or wild speculation welcome.
This weekend Pat P. and I (he has all the good Miller Special Trans tools-you da man Pat:thumb: ) dissasemble the trans and found it to be in really good shape overall for a 175k+ trans, gonna need only bearings/races/shims to make it race worthy.
Often we see the Nylon shift pads for the lower gears damaged or just plain missing, but for whatever reason on this trans they are fine, it's the 5th gear pad that is beat! Like totally 'melted'. You can tell it took a bunch of heat because the nylon is all balled up on the trailing edge. We were trying to speculate how 5th takes such a beating and what we came up with was maybe the original owner of this trans (boneyard piece) rested their hand on the shifter exerting slight pressure for extended periods while the car was in 5th.
Anyone else seen this? Ideas, or wild speculation welcome.