Removed the transmission. First gear did not work and it had excessive bearing wear. Intermediate shaft broke. Third and forth gear was badly pitted. Had about 130K miles on it.
Heres the transmission. The last owner never changed the oil. When I drained the tranny, the oil was almost silver! Good excuse to upgrade to a better transmission huh? Plus, look how dirty it is. Can't have that in my engine bay.
This is a pic of the bell housing.
This is the custom 4140 billet steel clutch release fork. I bought this because the stock fork tends to break. I had it powder coated in red to prevent it from rusting. The picture shows both sides of the fork.

This is the Custom clutch disk I bought. It was made to order. I got it here locally from a place called Southland Clutch. They have alot of performance clutches and flywheels. Its called Twin Friction Disk. It has two sides and I have used this disk before and it works great. It grabs like glue but engages smooth enough to daily drive. If you dump the clutch get ready to be whiplashed! The Flywheel side has an 8 puck ceremetallic disk. The other side of this custom Twin friction disk is a Street organic disk. I am going to use this disk with an ACT 2100 Pressure Plate. Its going to be great with my NLTS feature :0)

Well it took alittle over a month for me to get my Tranny back. This time frame includes the time to get the box, send the tranny, them to rebuild it and send the tranny back to me) And I am happy to see this beauty!!!

Now this is truly a site. This is the only time that this bell housing is ever going to be this clean. Next time I see it, it will be full of clutch dust! Compare with the picture above!
The tranny was rebuilt with a stage 2 TRE performance rebuild. I also added Steel shift rails, Heavy Duty intermediate shaft, new 3rd and 4th gears, Double synchro 2nd and Speed Designs 4 Spider Differential.

Page 4 Transmission 14,450 miles later
Page 5 The Engine buildup

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