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Back In the Saddle Again
- Thread starter K5Devil
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One fully assembled main shaft 
Countershaft endplay is at .005 with the OG shim, wanted to get it a little tighter but was unable to achieve that with the shims I have on hand. Spec says .002-.006 I’d like to be on the tighter end of that but I guess these are basically the original gears so there shouldn’t be much movement. 
Talking with Andrew at long range gear he thinks I should aim it for .002. Worried that break in could cause it to go out of tolerance.
So obviously I burned $75 on shims lol and I can’t continue until they show up.
No ring and pinion shims laying around?
Nope when I moved here I got rid of a lot of stuff.
One thing that sucks about out here is that you can’t get anything nearby I used to be able to pop in a trans shop or a junkyard and get everything I needed and cheap. Not anymore.
Love it when I get the parts I need for the weekend. Torque king for the win that was economy shipping too. I went ahead and ordered the main shaft shim kit at the same time. 
My parts wont be here till sunday
So fresh and new
Got the countershaft to exactly .002 end play and I could definitely feel what Andrew was talking about. This trans definitely prefers .002 on its end play.
Just have to rebuild 5th gear and send it. Got the main shaft to .003 after a billion attempts. Close enough. It’s not a Ferrari. 
Ok, so had to tear the main shaft down again because after looking at the pic above I realized I put the reverse hub on backwards. Was up til about 1am getting this out of the case and pressing that off. Then putting it back together since 7 am and just got done 
the manual did not show the direction of the reverse hub well but I was looking at my pics before tear down and realized it was reversed. Won’t be making that mistake again. It’s in and I actually got the bearing to seat better on the main shaft could shim it a little more and still got .003 end play. Pic of sketchy press shenanigans. 
the manual did not show the direction of the reverse hub well but I was looking at my pics before tear down and realized it was reversed. Won’t be making that mistake again. It’s in and I actually got the bearing to seat better on the main shaft could shim it a little more and still got .003 end play. Pic of sketchy press shenanigans.
Came out to finish the job put the top on and shifted through all gears smoothly. Went to put 5th gear on and…..
Pretty sure at this point I got a junk unfinished shaft. There is no way you can press 5th gear on without a threaded hole in the end of the main shaft.
Tempted to just send it home with a BFH
Pretty sure at this point I got a junk unfinished shaft. There is no way you can press 5th gear on without a threaded hole in the end of the main shaft.
Tempted to just send it home with a BFH
If that is all the threads are for drill it tap it press it on
I ended up using the old 5th gear nut and the old 5th gear to press on the new one using the 5th gear nut threads. Very carefully. After I got it pressed on I then used 1/2 a bottle of redloctite and sent it home with the impact and then used my body weight to make sure it was between 250-350 ft lbs. I would hate to be the guy who has to take this off in the future and I really hope it ain’t me lol 
Ended up making the tool.
Ended up making the tool.
I think I have the tool you needed.
It's a half a moon with a square tooth at the tip.
This is the tool I needed. I have the other one too but during pressing on the 5th gear I was using it and the teeth just wore away on it. So I had this socket and lengthened it to clear the shaft and it worked perfect.
Well it ended up being me. Torque king sent me the 5th gear for the later model without telling me after I told them I’m building a 6.34 ratio trans. So I busted this all off, will need a new 5th gear nut. Will have to reuse the original 5th gear as the 19T version I have is no longer available. This info would have been great to have before I wasted my weekend. I explicitly told them what I needed but again I should have counted the teeth before putting it on. Now we wait for more parts. Finish it next weekend I hope lol
