[ischmitz]

Yeah, Do it. I did mine and John was a terrific asset. Besides all the good posts I called him up a couple of times when I got really stuck and his advise made the day. Mine wouldn't go into 3rd and it turned out to be a chewed up operating sleeve. I replaced all synchro's and the puppy is holding up fine to the 3.6 so far. I'll keep my fingers crossed.

The nice thing about working on a transmission as oposed to a motor is that they don't act like Schroedinger's cat. Once you pull the nose cover and the intermediate housing problems become pretty obvious, yet you are only down a couple of cheap paper gaskets. Do that to a motor and you talk several hundret dollars for gaskets right there.

FYI: I didn't even know that the gears in a transmission mesh all the time before I ripped into mine. So besides saving me a ton of money by simply handing the job off I learned how a transmission actually works. I have since rebuild a 3.6 with help from some local guys on the board.

Ingo