When we listen railroad track maintenance we always want to secure our track .there are lot of big construction company whom did their work a unique manner.and we found that in the internet.

 

Nice.. How's your input shaft look?

 

Alright guys, flywheel up get'n turned. Worm tracks all thru it. Input was tore up, pilot bearing fell apart. Came up on BIG problem. The Inoput shaft repair kit i purchased was for a 6.6L chevy... So, i called manufacturer of part, gave me some distributor numbers and found company that has it in stock. Problem is, there 110 miles from me. So road trip it is....

Future help for anyone doing this, here's the correct one...lol

Ford ZF 5 & 6 Speed Input Shaft Repair Kit 6.9 7.3 | eBay

 

What I did instead of the repair kit with a bigger bearing was to put an old school pilot bushing in it. The "land" of the bushing rode outside I the damage to the shaft. Plus is was like $9. Dorman 690-039 is the exact OD and ID of the stock bearing.

http://www.dormanproducts.com/p-24562-690-039.aspx

 

Well guys, she's in, but i'm not outta the woods. Got a new thread started (master/slave replacement). I should be more stoked at tackling this but end result is pissing me off.

Cookie, Al, Sled, Journey...and the rest, THANK YOU. If not for you guys, this would've been a nightmare, and prboably would've ended up telling a garage mechanic to , "let go of my ears, i know what i'm doin" with the price of the bill, lol.

 

...HELL YA, tranny shifts like butter now. I GOT 1ST BACK...(sorry for caps, i'm STOKT).

 

Good Job Bro

 

Nice!! .

 

Just wanting to update the thread. Well, after the install, and driving around the block, everything seemed great. So, we booked a room for Vegas, for 3-days, lol. Anyway, on way to get daughter, hit some traffic on freeway, and guess what, no 1st.... I kept ur in 2nd and so on, to move the rig. Got to her mother's house, let sit for abit (b.s-ing with neighbor), and then left. Noticed this time, get'n to freeway, that ALL my gears were shifting perfect. Could it have been that the fluid was get'n hot, that caused the no shift problem?. Anyhow, got back to home, and read about NOT having all synthetic in tranny for fluid. We were leaving the following morning, so off to the auto store to get regular mercon V...(Chris..FL_250 i believe swore that no need for syn for his ride and he's banging at 400K+ miles). WELLL, woke up Sat morning, removed shifter, drained the fluid, re-installed plug, filled with 1qt of syn and 5qts regular. Got to Vegas, and bam, no 1st again, but WIFE notices now that my shifter is hit'n the underdash gauge pod (meant for auto, but "thought" i had enough room). So, went the next few days out there, when needed to drive, starting in 2nd. Came home Tues morning, and when pulled up to driveway, first thing i did was moved the pod to the left abit and down, enough to "clear" the 1st gear throw. With not having anything to lose, we left then to sisters' house (50miles away, with 15miles of city driving once off freeway). NOW, i dont know what might of happened, but all i can say is WOW. The tranny has 1st back, back enough that i can say, it feels like it should, the day you buy a manual truck. Every gear is smooth as silk, stays in all gears, no popping out like it did in 1st (which sounded like a granade going off)..etc, you guys get the point. Now the ? is, was it a combination of not nough throw in 1st and/or the fact that the new fluid just embedded into the synchros or something to that effect, allowing now for the gear/s to stay put in their respective places....I'm exstatic now, and hope (knocking wood here), that problems are gone.....

BTW, BIGAL, that damn "howling" sound is STILL there, bud, at 13-1800rpm Think its inside the tranny, cause there nothing left to make that sound, lol