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

["Armand Eshleman" <aje1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tom,

I apologize, I wasn't trying to make you feel worse about the situation. I
know how you feel. I've been there done that and learned the hard way more
than once. It would seem that sometimes without a good friend looking over
our shoulder we sometimes let that nasty bit of "Rambler" mentality seep to
the top of our thought patterns, and before we can get rid of it, it's taken
over and DANG there goes the farm.....................

Actually I am very lucky to have all you guys on this list who are more than
happy to look over my shoulder and tell me not to take the cheap easy route
because it almost always ends up in disaster. Now if I can just get the
rambler mentality to release me so I remember to ask the
questions...........

Best of luck with it Tom.
Armand


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Jennings" <tomj@xxxxxxx>
To: "AMC/Rambler owners, drivers and fans." <amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 11:43 PM
Subject: Re: [Amc-list] T-96 woes (again)


> 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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