92GreyGT

Where is he getting the transmissions? If you are getting used you need to take them apart and check bearing preloads on the cluster and output shafts. That and a good shifter are the life of these gear boxes. If he is buying new ones I would say it's thedriver.

85GTsleeper

you can break any transmission no such thing as bulletproof. plenty of idiots out there can break anything.

djcondo

the shift forks that push the gears around in the t-5, have you seen one? cause i have rebuilt mine and replaced my bent shift fork. that is what i was talking about.

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Jfsram

I've come to the conclusion it's the shock load that take out the dog teeth. A quick shift is more shock than a slow power shift and horsepower or etis not the killer of a T5. Traction and weight will break a trans before horsepower.

These things will survive behind500hp turbo engines but notmild stocker ifbanged intogear. They are nice daily driver transmissions also. My last Mustang which never saw a tire went 320,000 before I sold it and it was still working perfectly.

My shift forks were fine. Djcon. When you said linkage. I have thoughts of theold 60's transmissions with rods and lever outside the trans. Thank goodness they survived, they were new ones from Tremec.

There is no doubt I was engaged into 2nd when it broke. The gear was slid over and engaged to the dog teeth when I took it apart. Too bad the dog teeth was not attached to the speed gear anymore.

What do you all think about these Super Alloy gears from Astro performance?

djcondo

when i could not get my trans to shift good b/c of the forks, everyone told me that if i was looking to run the car or drive hard just to look into the TKO-500. But trans are expensive so, i think that the alloy gears would make the t-5 stronger but i think from all of the horror stories of t-5 you will still hit problems later. look at this web site it may help you. btw nice notch http://www.musclemustangfastfords.co...rce/index.htmlgood luck

WhiteWindsor

If you have future plans for building the engine i would go ahead and get the tko, i have the TKO-600 behind my 357, and that is one thing i have not had to worry about.