4th Gear Syncro

[firefighter7128]

What is involved (headaches and heataches) when replacing the 4th gear syncro?
Is it best to just replace the entire tranny?

[firefighter7128]

bump. sorry i need to know. If you have any info, Please advise. kind of on a time issue here..

[banana944]

Just get another trans, this is deffinatly not the job for a driveway mechanice - unless you have time and money. NA trannys are cheap enough get another one.

There was a thread just recently about rebuilding these trannys, a search may yeild some answers.

[jcommin]

I had a bad 3rd gear on my tranny. The options:

Buy a new one from Porsche - $7K rebuilt (mine is an LSD)
Buy a used one - price varies. Risk: just how good is it??? Someone on this board posted a big list of places to find used parts.
Buy one from George @ 944Ecology of Ian @ 944online. price $1800 - $2000
Have yours rebuilt: Catellus Engineering $1800 - $2000


Prices may vary. Depends on what George of Ian has in stock.

In my case I chose to have mine rebuilt. LSD's are rare and I am very satisfied with the work from Catellus.


Good luck

[Razorback1980]

There is also a guy called Many944s that usually has some rebuilt ones as well. I would go with one of the rebuilt ones (from any of the mentioned places as they all seem to do good work) but if you want a list of places to get one from a recycler, let me know and I'll look that up for you. It's the cheaper option but you don't know what you are getting.

[175mph951]

944 tranny is tricky to rebuild unless you have someone with you who has done one before...better off getting a used one or having yours rebuilt professionally