Rebuilt complete!
Hi everyone.
Thanks to a nasty flu I've been grounded for a full week.
But this weekend I felt better and I spent this sunday at my buddy's shop to complete my T5 rebuild.
To make it short, I saved his *ss pretty big time, so he owns me all the reasonably simple machining work I could ask.
Since a lot of parts are new I couldn't expect everything to be right within the tolerances.
First of all, we had to drill the case for the GM part, it only had the Ford pattern. So we cut the old case's face, surfaced it and used it as a pattern bolted and the new case by the bearing retained bolts.
For the cluster gear we had to make a new thrust plate shim....
And a couple of surface grinding
to reach a perfect zero endplay on the countershaft.
For the main shaft this was the complete opposite, instead of having to put a shim, we had to remove .002 to the inside of the retainer to obtain zero endplay and a shaft that turn nice and free.
Here is the 5th gear installed :
A last view of the inside before sealing this up
I hope this Gforce case strenght is worth the effort.
Here is it done, with the 30$ ebay mustand shifter and the scatter shield.
It shifts nice and smooth, mission accomplished.
It feels good to have this giant puzzle back in one piece, the video instructions proved to be invaluably helpful.
I bough a Zoom clutch/pressure plate kit, nothing fancy.
I'm going to weld the shifter offset
just like here, but I still have no idea about the shifter handle I'm gonna use.
Do all shifter handles come with the same bolt pattern? Is there any standard? I would like to get everything welded before I have to worry about an handle.
Since the front clip it not glued yet, I think I'm gonna pull the whole engine, it will be much easier to work on.