Re: [Amc-list] T-96 woes (again)

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For T5's 5speeds.com makes a layered shim to set preload, you just peel off layers till you get it right.
Not sure how good it works in practice though.

--
Mark Price
Morgantown, WV
1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5
2004 Grand Cherokee Laredo, 4.7L, Quadratrac II
" I realize that death is inevitable.
I just don't want to be around when it happens! "

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>
> Armand Eshleman wrote:
> > The rebuild kit I bought for the T5 in the Javelin came with three or four
> > of those "thrust washers". None of them allowed for the correct amount of
> > end play the T5 needed. I took the washers to the local machine shop and
> > they surface ground one of them so I could assemble it with another one and
> > end up with the correct end play. I used I dial indicator to determine the
> > end play needed. So far the T5 works great. (crossed his fingers here).
> > 
> > Is this what you should have done during the assembly of the T96?
> 
> 
> Grumble, don't rub it in :-)
> 
> Yep, and now I get to do it after! Emailing Frank I think he's right, 
> one of the little spring-loaded dogs fell out, the synchro is spinning, 
> and it's a crap shot where they land when the fall out -- like jam the 
> slider so it's stuck in 2 or 3. So I won't drive it til I yank it and look.
> 
> The shimming itself isn't that hard (like you did, dial indicator and 
> pry-load the stack one way then the other, determine optimum and 
> buy/make shim).
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