T56 Problems
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3-4 synchro guide plates, prone to break. Upgrade is 99 dollars from D&D. Labor intensive though. My tranny is doing the same thing right now, so I am driving 1-2 5-6 only. If you keep driving it, and this problem is what yours is....... you are driving on borrowed time. Try to get it fixed ASAP....... 400 now or 2000 later.
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Do the rebuild your self it doesn't take that long I have never done anything even remotely close to it in my life! 4 days of working on it after my normal job! its $0.82 part for an oem one! but $99 for unbreakable ones! I have to say it wasn't that bad of a job that same thing happend to me and those little keys/dogs where floating around in my case for a couple days... THANK GOODNESS I took care of it before they got caught in a gear thats 200 dollars or worse! If you have any questions please ask!
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I'd love to rebuild it myself, but before I took it out and took it apart I would have to be 100 percent sure I could do it. I've done all the mods on my car but I've never seen the inside of the tranny before...
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neither had I but I wasn't going to spend 1500 dollars for someone else to do it when all I had to replace was $.82 keys/dogs. Although I bought the nicer ones so they wouldn't break again! I just went at it everyday after I got off work with a couple good writeups, t56 service manual(found online), the right tools, and 5-6 hours a day it only took 4 nights 20-30 hours. Thats including (remember never have done any of this including pulling the trans!) Pulling it out, tearing it down, building it back up, tearing it down again because I didn't seat the counter shaft right... just take your time and that wont be a problem, built it back up, replaced the clutch turned the flywheel, and shoved it back in the car! Oh and it was 29 degrees for the 2 days that it took me to pull it. lol if you have any questions you can pm me or even call me in the middle of the night because I know thats what I wanted at 445 in the morning when I had no Idea why the gears where binding! so let me know how it goes!