More screwed than I thought. Check THIS out...

[Nihil]

Less than 5k miles on this stuff

Input shaft bearing at bell housing
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Cracked the end case
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Teeth are screwed amongst other things...
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The output shaft oil seal was pinched upon reassembly...This whole time I thought it was the rear main they screwed up because the oil was so black, turns out they screwed up the seal when they put it back together...
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Short story on this, Aamco=bad, which is obvious...wasn't my decision, it was out of my hands.

So now I'm lookin at options, I've got a trans with bad 1-2 synchro's and cracked bell housing, I can use this ones bell for that, shaft splines are in need of replacement...

Other options, have a couple offers of used trans for $700+ shipping...which, to me, I'd be better off savin the 7 and usin the one mentioned above.

I don't think replacing parts on this one is a good idea, I dunno about anything bein usable...I'm tapped for cash, I already spent $2500 on turbos, clutch flywheel and other misc parts I was planning on installing until I found this...now I'm tryin to figure out options and ideas for this situation...

Watch' y'all think? Sucks to think this thing had $2500 bucks into it in the rebuild Aamco did and now I'll be out again...with the expenses together, I should have ended up with a decently built trans by the end of this little adventure.

[Turbo Beast]

No warranty?

[Nihil]

No warranty?

That's where the long story comes in. It was done 5 years ago. It was my dads car, he bought a parts car we swapped a bunch of parts, swapped the transmissions between the two of them and he got tired of it so he sent the car with the other trans to aamco for a rebuild. Thing made noise from day one after gettin back, took it down there, they said it was normal and fine. My dad drove the thing maybe 250 miles during his ownership, decided he wanted to sell it since he didn't drive it, I bought it from him, I didn't wanna see it go since we did so much work on it together...

So here I am...screwed...and an F.Y.I., according to the fine print, they don't warranty manual transmissions

[Chris@Rvengeperformance]

If you do end up wanting some parts I have an end case and input shaft that are good.

[wingnut]

So here I am...screwed...and an F.Y.I., according to the fine print, they don't warranty manual transmissions

Yep, found that out not long ago...in fact, my local one wanted nothing to do with a manual so bad, they even referred me to a local guru that specialized in ford transmissions :p

[green-lantern]

That sucks, the pinched output seal is common when reassembling. I did mine and had to pull it back out. From now on I'm putting them in after I put the cases together.

Sounds like your best bet might be a used trans from a trusted source.

[KeithMac]

Cheap Chinese input shaft bearing?, if I ever rebuild mine ill be keeping the original one in there..

[Nihil]

Cheap Chinese input shaft bearing?, if I ever rebuild mine ill be keeping the original one in there..

From what I've come up with, that's the hard to find bearing, so if I had to guess, they didn't replace it. It looks like they can be had for $130 though, which would've saved another 2k+ adventure I'm goin on now...

I'm still checking all options, biggest thing I'm tryin to decide on now is 300m shaft or wait and build the other up with LSD n full performance parts. It'd save money for the time being and the upgraded VCU comes with the upgraded shaft...I dunno, I'm strapped for cash anyway, spent $2500 already in the last two months...decisions, decisions...