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Customer brought in their trans with a loss of all forward gears. Seemingly randomly one day.
I was expecting to tear it apart to find a cut teflon or something similar exhausting all forward clutch oil...I was surprised to find this!!
Looks like a needle bearing failed and locked it up.
No idea why the splines ripped out like that instead of chewing a planet gear or something though.
This is the first time I have ever seen this. Probably just a fluke. Look at the output shaft and check for any twisting of the splines. Did anything happen out of the ordinary here just before this happened?
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Impressive Front Planet Failure 
