Takophiliac
15+ Year Contributor
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- Oct 12, 2007
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Davenport,
Iowa
I'm rebuilding an f5m33 manual transmission from a 97 Talon TSi FWD.
The transmission that i got with the car had damaged input and intermediate shaft gears (the ones that are part of the shaft). I bought another transmission that has a worn 3-4 shift fork and shift lever.
My plan is to take the good parts (namely the shift lever and forks as well as synchros) from the old transmission and replace those same parts in the "new" transmission.
The problem I'm running into is finding the tools to put the needle bearings and roller bearings back onto the shafts. I have a bearing splitter, a shop press (20 tons. I hear thats more than i need for this), micrometer to measure the preload to select spacer rings, and a set of feeler guages to measure to select snap rings. The only tools i can't find are the MD998816, MD998818, and MD9998819 that are referenced in the shop manual(p. 22B-15) as "bearing installer adapter"s.
The tools i can't find are referenced by the manual as tools used to press the new bearings (needle and roller) onto the shafts in the transmission. SPX says that never made the tools, and maybe they didn't. But someone rebuilds these... where do they get their tools from?
Am i making this overcomplicated and there is something else that should be obvious to use? Best i can tell the sizes that i need are 30, 34, 38, and 40mm (guessing from the manual description and some measurements of the bearing races). For a few of them (the end of shaft roller bearings on the intermediate shaft, output shaft, and differential) some sockets seem like obvious work-arounds but I haven't got a clue as to where to find sockets that will meet the needs for the needle bearing races.
Help?
The transmission that i got with the car had damaged input and intermediate shaft gears (the ones that are part of the shaft). I bought another transmission that has a worn 3-4 shift fork and shift lever.
My plan is to take the good parts (namely the shift lever and forks as well as synchros) from the old transmission and replace those same parts in the "new" transmission.
The problem I'm running into is finding the tools to put the needle bearings and roller bearings back onto the shafts. I have a bearing splitter, a shop press (20 tons. I hear thats more than i need for this), micrometer to measure the preload to select spacer rings, and a set of feeler guages to measure to select snap rings. The only tools i can't find are the MD998816, MD998818, and MD9998819 that are referenced in the shop manual(p. 22B-15) as "bearing installer adapter"s.
The tools i can't find are referenced by the manual as tools used to press the new bearings (needle and roller) onto the shafts in the transmission. SPX says that never made the tools, and maybe they didn't. But someone rebuilds these... where do they get their tools from?
Am i making this overcomplicated and there is something else that should be obvious to use? Best i can tell the sizes that i need are 30, 34, 38, and 40mm (guessing from the manual description and some measurements of the bearing races). For a few of them (the end of shaft roller bearings on the intermediate shaft, output shaft, and differential) some sockets seem like obvious work-arounds but I haven't got a clue as to where to find sockets that will meet the needs for the needle bearing races.
Help?