New Tranny Here - Salvaging Cracked Parts

The newly rebuilt transmission from Greg Robbins showed up via UPS today at 95 pounds.


Here is the plastic tub that it was shipped in. The tub doesn't look like UPS treated it very well.


Another view of the tub. The fiberglass straps are broken, the lid is totally cracked in pieces and most of the corners are dented in.


Here's the transmission removed from the plastic tub in my front hallway with plastic peanuts everywhere. At first glance, everything looks to be in order.


Another side view of the transmission. Pretty clean! The gears feel good and solid if I rotate the input shaft and output couplings.


Oh no! Upon closer inspection, the side-shift support looks like it suffered a rather harsh fall. Note the large crack near the upper left of the picture. The bottom edge of the support looks pretty beat up too, possibly from dragging on the ground. The material inside the crack is very clean, leading me to believe that this was probably caused by UPS, although there was plenty of padding in the bottom of the plastic tub.


Another look at the crack on the side-shift support. I didn't want this liability on the transmission, so I replaced the cracked support with the one from my existing tranny.


I never thought I would have three transmissions in my small garage. I've moved several necessary parts from my original transmission to the newly rebuilt one (on the left), to make it functional.

Tomorrow, I plan to fill it with transmission fluid and see if it bolts to the motor reasonably.

Man, I reallllllly hope this works....