transmission reassembly!

[koabi.brooks at gmail.com (Koabi Brooks)]

Thanks I'll give that a try.  Is there any reason I shouldn't use a spare 8v
5th gear case cap on a 16v tranny?  I notice the inside of the case has a
bit of a different look to it but nothing that looks structural.  My
original 16v 5th gear case has light surface cracks around the thrust
bearing area.

On 8/9/07, Ron Pieper <rapieper@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I get the case halves together as far as they go, then put the bolts in
> and by progressively
> tightening them, get it together.
>
> In doing this, you are pressing the mainshaft bearing back onto the
> shaft.  So, there will
> probably be some stress still in the case and this prevents the shaft from
> turning freely.  Give
> the bearing's inner race a *light* pop with a large socket and it'll snap
> into place pretty as you
> please.
>
> HTH
>
> Ron
>
> --- Koabi Brooks <koabi.brooks@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Thanks to ron,dan and broke I tore down my transmission.  Now i am
> building
> > it back up.  I made a cheapassron tranny separator which worked quite
> > nicely.  So how do i put the two halves back together?  I did not remove
> the
> > bearing held by those 4 triple square bolts.
> >
> > as a side note, it's amazing how much easier this process was once I got
> a
> > heat source to play with
> >
> > koabi
>