well my friends 87 5.0 had issues. the stock t5 didnt have 5th most of the time, yet sometimes it had it. then one day every gear other than 4th went out. So he bought a used one from a junkyard out of an 83 stanger(r they the same?) well while on the lift all gears worked fine, but on the road 3rd and 4th didnt work. so we went back, lifted up the car and 3rd and 4th worked. what would cause this? He's prolly just going to end up getting the original tranny rebuilt. he has no major performance ideas so a rebuilt stocker will do just fine. any ideas on how much this would cost if we have to go this route? thanks for all your guys' imput.

 

if you have to pay a shop to rebuild it then best off buy one already done or a new z-spec one. cause when they are done..cost will be close to that of a new one pending what they find......when you say gears went out??? what do you mean?? won't go into gear???

 

the syncrho assembly.

A synchro workes by slow down the main shaft and speeding up the mating gear simultaneously, and instantly. It does this with the just of a blocker ring with fricton material on the bottom of to create resistance on the main shaft. So, even if the teeth in your syncro aren't bad, allowing the 3-4 shift to happen while still, your blocker right could be toast, not doing its job, and thus not allowing you to go into gear with load, while moving down the road..

So, the point of all that is. you need new 3-4 syncrho assy.

 

whats a good place to buy remanufactured t5's from? man im happy this isnt happening to me haha, im broke right now.
but i just threw in my new driveshaft and for the first time since i bought my car was able to go above 100mph.
it shook like crazy before cause my stocker was crap

 

also where the heck are you saposed to poor in the fluid at? we just poored it into that rectangular box where the shifter linkage in, the part you can see thru the cabin where the shifter bolts to. was that good or bad?

 

you can find reman ones on ebay for around 700 beans

 

They have a plug on the side 2 of them your spose to take the top plug out on the passger side and feel it up til it comes out there

 

Easiest way to fill em...if you have the shifter out. I pull the fill plug on the side of the tranny(top one), and start pouring it in where the shifter goes untill it starts comming out of the fill hole.

 

yeah but how the heck are you saposed to put fluid in that top hole when its in the car. we were told to wait until after it was in to put the fluid in and theres no way i coulda got a funnel up there.

and are you serious about ebay?
i would not want to buy something like a tranny from there.

 

thats exactly what we did. took almost 3 quarts to fill. sound right?