Anyway to clean inside of tranny?

[SpoolinGSX]

I just got a 95 awd tranny shipped to my house. When I opened the box the person who shipped it used all kinds of styrofoam, and when it mixed with the leftover tranny oil it broke apart into thousands of little pieces. The problem was that he only blocked one of the holes for the axles, leaveing the other exposed as well as the speedometer gear hole open. I tried to vacuum it up a bit but I saw some styrofoam in the holes.

My question is, is there any way I could just take off the bellhousing and clean up any styrofoam that got inside? I don't feel comfortable running the tranny as is, since little specs of dirt can eventually seize your engine, I would assume trannys are similar, and chunks of styrofoam floating around just means trouble.

 

[Defiant]

Hm. Pulling the cover would be _best_, but I'd bet styrofoam wouldn't really hurt the gearbox, especially in small amounts. The gearbox oil should dissolve it..... maybe you've stumbled onto the next racer trick, styrofoam silencing!

If you don't want to take it apart, get some cheap gear oil and run it for a week, then dump it and replace it with Pennzoil Synchromesh. You'll be fine.