my original lb9 iroc with 3.08 rear gear,t5 eat itself,cant find replacement locally or affordable but do have access to t5 from 1989 2.8 v6,can i just use my input shaft from my 1352-176 (i know references show from a L03)into this v6 trans since i am in bad spot to just get the car going,since it is 80 miles from home

 

has anybody tried to find a T5 for a 3rd gen v8 car lately?i broke mine 80 miles from the house and had it towed to a friends,getting desperate to get something in it to bring her home,found a 89 T5 from a 2.8 car,condition unknown,can just input shaft be changed from my eaten one?brand new clutch,flywheel,pressure plate and was on a clutch break in when she was cruising in 5th,clunked and that was it.

 

No.

Clutch gear and countergear would both have to be changed.

Might be quicker, cheeeeeeper, eeeeeeeeeezyer, and otherwise more satisfactory, to just leave the 6-cyl one alone; and swap the clutch disc to a (I think this is the one) 4.3 Astro van one.

 

I'm pretty sure that the input shaft on the V6 transmission is too long for a V8.


You can not swap the input gear because all of the gear ratios are different in the V6 transmission. You would have to change ever gear in the transmission.

 

because of time and money,i just get the v6 trans,swap out the clutch disc,checking on the astro van disc and should be a plug and play,isnt it?

 

Not if the input shaft is longer. I don't know about the Camaro V6, but the 2.8 S10 V6 T5 has a longer input shaft.

 

The maindrive gear teeth and teeth on the countershaft are different counts. So are the other teeth for the countershaft and speed gears 1-3.

If it is a legit WC V8 T5, and hasn't elongated the front of the case, fix it.

​​​​​​Driving a V6 ratio T5 is miserable in comparison.