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So as soon as I found out that some goober had ruined the threads that retain the speedometer pinion I had to fix it. This feature resides in the rear main bearing housing for the transmission and pretty much requires full disassembly of the transmission. OK no problem.


This picture shows the 1st gear synchro where you can clearly see some damage.


Here is a shot of the synchro pulled out with the bad dog (the bar on the left of the screen). That notch is not supposed to be there. The piece was pulverized by the gnashing gears of the transmission. About 2 hours for disassembly. Now that I've done this and have a couple new tools, this should take about 30 minutes.


About $150 worth of parts and six hours later I have a rebuilt transmission. Another hour later I had it installed in the car. This is a major step toward getting the car out of the garage.

The transmission is installed in the car, prop shaft bolted on, new mounts and cross member installed. Tomorrow I'll install the clutch slave cylinder, starter motor, bleed the brakes and take her off of the jack stands for the first time since she went into the garage the first of the year.