Some Make It And Others Don't

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Well Hello There Fellow Technicians And Hivers!

Well today I've got a real crappy one and with that an even more crappy situation for the customer.

We booked in one of those old Ford Rangers a 2.5 diesel, and well as we have it the transmission is buggered up properly I'd say, it seems like it got some water inside. It is an ancient transmission but it's still driving can you believe that... well somewhat.

Now the thing about these transmissions is just that, they are ancient and parts availability is still there but they are hella expensive, especially when you have to start replacing gears and not just bearings.


I'll be blunt here, there probably isn't a transmission I hate more to teardown than this old rugged thing and the best part is I have no idea why. Perhaps because working on the vehicle is a burden in it self since they are old and have ages of grease and oil leaks covering almost everything under the hood.

I still have to though whether I like it or not, that's why they call it work I suppose!

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Before we really start off with anything I like to remove the easiest parts first and with that I can actually see what's going on inside this little ancient build.

I have absolutely no hope for this, but I've always been wrong when opening transmissions. In my head I picture them completely broken apart and that there's nothing left but when I open them up it never really looks that bad.

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Oooofff Would you take a look at all those metal shavings! Nasty ganky stuff ey!

Although, I don't see any big chunks of metal teeth just yet! But it most definitely got some water inside, whenever oil is a milky colour it tends to have water mixed up with it.

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Nope the gears are all still beautifull, but don't get too excited we shall know for sure once we stripped it down completely and washed off all the oil from the parts, only then would you be able to really see what is going on. They might still be fine from a distance but once you do a closer inspection one might see the tooth are worn out.

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Okay I opened it up and well so far we know for a fact that the bearings are worn, so a complete bearing kit would be in order. That alone is already somewhat expensive.

The next section or piece that needs removal would be the tail housing, in order to get the tail housing off we need to remove the selector shaft dell pin, very easy to remove. Once it's out it should just pop right off with a little hammering.

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Now we can remove the rest of the selectors one by one by removing the dell pins out of each of them.

Forget about the dell pins and the selector shafts for now, notice the gankyness of the oil?

If I had any head on me I'd say it got both water and dirt in it, it looks more muddy than milky!

The best part about builds like these are seeing how well they turn out after they have been restored, the look on the owners faces when they feel how it shifts, most of them say this vehicle has never shifted so easily but it has.. they just don't notice the deterioration until it's completely bugger.

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Blehhh.


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This is where one should be focusing, you don't want to break the sandwich plate, yeah that's what we call it. A sandwich plate.

See there are two bearings pressed into the sandwich plate, well we want both of them to move together and using a steel hammer is probably not the best idea, I prefer using a copper or bronze hammer so that the hammer takes the actual damage caused.

Remember the more you butcher this thing the harder it will be to rebuild it.

A fine art some people call it. A fine art with a bit of hammering!

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Wiggle Waggle that sandwich plate out of there.


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Well we didn't really tear it down farther than this, bossman said he has seen enough and I should push it sideways. It doesn't sound like this oak is going to rebuild this transmission, not my problem at the end of the day but I do hope he does I'm keen on slapping this grandpa together again.

Although I reckon that water did it's damage, I can understand why bossman said that since the tooth pattern on all the gears would probably be mismatched anyways so they might get a scrapyard box and rebuild that one. If the client accepts the job.

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For those who have never seen a copper hammer, well this is more like Thor's hammer a big old chunky thing and yes it hits quite hard so keep the fingers away from it!

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Dated 22/05/2023

Take note this is not a how to guide, merely myself talking about the work I do and my thoughts around certain things.

To everyone who made it this far into my post Thank you for the read and the support.

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Most of all please leave a input in the comments below, whether is good or bad critic I would like to know, whether its your opinion or your way of doing things in a different manner I would like.

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