DARKmj16

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nwc t5. so im driving got on the highway and all of a sudden I hear this tink, like a rain drop on a tin roof, but louder. more like 1 hail ball on a tin roof kinda. anywas when the sound happened I lost 5th gear. 1-4 and rev still work fine. I lost 5th gear before and when I tore it down, again, I made sure it had the correct snap ring, and I even put the green loc-tite (requires like 5000psi to break or something) and I was very generous with it.

so did I really lose 5th gear again? if so wtf is going on how is 5th gear walking off its spot (breaking the loc-tite and 2 snap rings now)

jmd

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Wanna go T56 yet?

I have a WC T5 apart if you need pics of one that didn't walk off over 10s of thousands of miles.

jmd

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You know, if it wasn't for the torque arm, shifter position and mount rotation, you'd be prime to put a T4 tailhousing on it.

DARKmj16

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Lol jmd. Love the pic and humor. Ive always wanted a t56 just lacking the 1500 for everything. Hey ill take that t5 off yours hands haha. But umm i dont think i need the pic as ik what its suppose to look like. But this weekend when i tear it down again ill take pics to show wtf happened.

Really regreting every taking the dam thing apart the 1st down, think i could handle the half full case of fuild and hard to go into 2nd bs this crap now.

DARKmj16

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So what do i have to look forward to when i take my trans apart? Just the gear outa place? Or is it possable it split in half? And also why is 5th coming off in the 1st place?

DARKmj16

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ok finally back with pics... no sign of that super Loctite, thinking it melted away. as you can see in the pics 5th gear blows past the snap ring. wtf. all I can say how does 5th gear keep going past the snap ring(and chews it up). well this time I added a 2nd snap ring in the groove past the 1st groove, and now I cant shift into 5th. well I can if I slam it and force it, but then I have to pull hard (and usally into 4th) to get out of 5th gear. im thinking its the extra snap ring. or I messed up the 5th gear shift rod somehow. thoughts?

jmd

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Yes, I meant the picture as camaraderie; how many people tear down their own manual trans. to fix them?

The mainshaft gear is getting shoved off off somehow. A vibration (perhaps in the countershaft speed gear) would do it. Troubleshooting that could be a PITA; I'd drop a line to someone who is all about the T5.

The stuff I use would go to powder easily if ground up. If 100% intact, it dries to a clear sheet.

Potential problems are the groove in the mainshaft smoothing over (and allowing the ring to walk out) but a normal functional gear relationship and gear-shaft relationship shouldn't walk the driven gear off that quickly. Something is worn. A similar thing happens when the T56 5-6 mainshaft cluster gear gets loose. It will (eventually) walk the reverse synchro right through the lock-ring.

Time to compare your parts to newparts and replace. Or maybe a core for parts.

DARKmj16

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thanks for the input. im guessing the snap ring groove is smooth but before I took the trans apart the first time 5th stayed on, but had a good amount of free play in the shafts. now that I rebuilt it, and not nearly as much free play (all nice and tight) 5th gear seems to do its own thing. im about to start a new, very good career so im just gona be done with it. in a few months (hopefully) ill be saying hello to a new ls1 and t-56 sell your this t-5 cheap so you can have the headache