[TX] tranny kaput
04-19-2017, 06:58 PM
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Car: '82 Camaro
Engine: 305
Transmission: wc T5
Axle/Gears: 3.23 posi
Re: tranny kaput
Thanks for the reply.
Do you have a 26 spline WC T5 for sale?
A thorough local search has found a core I can rebuild about an hour from here, closer than Pa., but I'm interested in alternatives.
It might be time to do an LS/LQ4/T56 transplant on this car. Three or four local shops would like to do this for me--not free--and I'm gradually convincing myself it's time to modernize.
The original 305 is starting to age slightly.
Do you have a 26 spline WC T5 for sale?
A thorough local search has found a core I can rebuild about an hour from here, closer than Pa., but I'm interested in alternatives.
It might be time to do an LS/LQ4/T56 transplant on this car. Three or four local shops would like to do this for me--not free--and I'm gradually convincing myself it's time to modernize.
The original 305 is starting to age slightly.
09-04-2017, 06:29 PM
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Car: '82 Camaro
Engine: 305
Transmission: wc T5
Axle/Gears: 3.23 posi
Re: tranny kaput
I cling to the past: a well-known manual trans rebuilder in Lubbock, Cecil, found all the parts necessary to rebuild my T5 and has done so.
He said my trans now has the last output shaft and third gear for a Chevy/Pontiac WC T5 known to exist, gathered from Oklahoma and Florida.
He also said to keep my head when shifting: this rebuild will likely last another 25 years (I'll be 93) if driven sanely but will go the way of all T5's if I abuse it.
The rebuild wasn't cheap, but I decided to keep the car original in remembrance of my big brother who, after walking down a long line of first gen Camaros at a huge car show three years ago, finally found one with a pre-LS motor. "How charming," he said.
He bought a new '69 Z28 and years before that he and I visited Lions drag strip in Long Beach long before I was old enough to drive. My tastes have matured, but not much.
But that doesn't rejuvenate my 35-year-old 305.
Fortunately a good friend is about to drop a 383 stroker into his original '68 C10 pickup; the big journal 327 is coming out and, after a little freshening, will find a new home in my '82 Camaro.
The same friend revealed a little surprise: he has four low-mileage aluminum-headed 5.3 LS motors in his storage shed out back--so I suppose there is a future.
He said my trans now has the last output shaft and third gear for a Chevy/Pontiac WC T5 known to exist, gathered from Oklahoma and Florida.
He also said to keep my head when shifting: this rebuild will likely last another 25 years (I'll be 93) if driven sanely but will go the way of all T5's if I abuse it.
The rebuild wasn't cheap, but I decided to keep the car original in remembrance of my big brother who, after walking down a long line of first gen Camaros at a huge car show three years ago, finally found one with a pre-LS motor. "How charming," he said.
He bought a new '69 Z28 and years before that he and I visited Lions drag strip in Long Beach long before I was old enough to drive. My tastes have matured, but not much.
But that doesn't rejuvenate my 35-year-old 305.
Fortunately a good friend is about to drop a 383 stroker into his original '68 C10 pickup; the big journal 327 is coming out and, after a little freshening, will find a new home in my '82 Camaro.
The same friend revealed a little surprise: he has four low-mileage aluminum-headed 5.3 LS motors in his storage shed out back--so I suppose there is a future.
