this time its a 93 cobra t5. lovely grinding sounds slowing down in first. my last t5 ate up the pocket bearings and retainer got ate up from the angle the input was sitting at. i think maybe this one is going the same route. havent pulled it yet. but i wonder how much it would run to get all new internals?? now i have 2 bad t5s soon to be sitting around. oh and of course everyone knows im a cheap azz junkyard dog. so no im not buying a rebuilt one

 

..I think you just answered your own question!!!LOL anyway my answer to it would be more than it would cost to buy one done

 

well my last one was to messed up. when the pocket bearins whent it scarred up both peices of the main shift rail input/ouput where they join but the rest of the gears and stuff were ok, but that whole top shift rail has to be spendy.this tranny was already beat when i got it, damn shame, nice gear ratios too

 

they had a thing in 5.0 magazine with a fully upgraded t-5 with new internals ran like 1,000 bucks all done.

 

Sounds like your catching up to me fast, I have one ready to break Cobra T-5 in my car and a toasted one in a box in the garage not counting the 2 that came apart before them. I rebuilt the one in my car (lasted almost as long as the professionally rebuilt one I broke) I had to get a new cluster gear, input shaft & retainer plus a rebuild kit (included the "soft parts") believe it was all around $400 Got my stuff through Reman Express 405-417-8413

 

Maybe between both trannys you could make ONE that works
How much HP are you pushing, is that killing them or the fact your using junkyard stuff?

 

i cant be putting out too much hp. the 86 motor is 200hp 290 some ft lbs and all i have done is some pretty minor head and intake work, maf conversion, smog deleted , stock headers into 3" size offroad h pipe, into flowmasters with 2 1/2 " tips. but my motor was rebuilt before i got it.we think the crank was shaved and balanced to the flywheel, because the only flywheel that works with this car is the modified one it came to me with neither 28 nor 50oz works both made the car shake when i tried putting new ones in when i did the clutch, rear main and all that fun stuff.but anyways i had to put a new shift rail off my old t5 to make this one whole . i got it from a friend who raced it in a notch..he broke the shift rail some how.the gears didnt look perfect but it worked. it supposedly has cryogenic frozen gears in it.
for 400 bucks im thinkn i could fix my original t5

 

Man...I've had my T-5 behind my 347 for two years and it was rebuilt probably 10 years ago...

 

do you have an aftermarket shifter OP? one quick way to kill a t5 is aggressive driving and a stock shifter

 

yeah stock off of my 86. just a steel input shaft retainer on the cobra. the cobra was missing the top cover and shift mechanism, so i took that off my bad 86 t5