If it's a K46 and it works it's worth $100-150 or so. People are always looking for them.
It might be an Intek copy. Take a picture and post it.
What did you do to your non-G body project today? [2022]
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If it's a K46 and it works it's worth $100-150 or so. People are always looking for them.
It might be an Intek copy. Take a picture and post it.
So my T56 parts order was supposed to show up last Friday. It did, minus a 2nd gear and billet 3-4 keys. Guess what goes on the mainshaft first? If you guessed 2nd gear, congrats. You won yourself a beer from your fridge. So Monday they check and proceed to overnight the parts. Got them yesterday, all is well. Forgot to put the syncro rings onto the mainshaft before pressing the small bearing onto the end, so get to take it all back apart again to do that as the 1-2 slider was too big to slide down the press. Today I set about popping in new seals and setting the bearing preload/endplay. Then I go for a real assembly and I begin to question where these raised teeth should be.
Am I lucky or good. They're centered in the void of blocker teeth. Crap, should they be there or with the rest of the teeth? Onto the Google machine I go, never found an answer, but then it hit me: dingus, the thing only goes together one way! So I'm neither lucky nor good. But in my searches I happened upon this article:
www.transmissiondigest.com
The Evolution of the T56. Here's an excerpt:
Check out the "billet" keys I pulled from the Camaro over the winter.
This is the reason I put stock keys back in the Camaro. Of course because I beat it senseless every time I fire it up, I obliterated the stock keys in just 2 weekends. I figured the above mode of failure was more preferable, so fresh "billet" keys went back in. I figured that this must be the way it is. Until I found that article. Tomorrow I'll be calling Rockland, Tick, RPM, and anyone else worth a shjt to try and get a consensus on the billet key market because this Corvette box is a way bigger asspain to pull than the Camaro box, which is why I used it for practice in the first place. I don't want to be doing this again any time soon.
Am I lucky or good. They're centered in the void of blocker teeth. Crap, should they be there or with the rest of the teeth? Onto the Google machine I go, never found an answer, but then it hit me: dingus, the thing only goes together one way! So I'm neither lucky nor good. But in my searches I happened upon this article:
Evolution of the T56 - Transmission Digest
BorgWarner designed the T-5 5-speed transmission that became one of the largest by volume of production. Using a very simple single-rail shift mechanism, the T5 was lightweight, came with a 5th-gear overdrive to add to fuel economy, and had a torque rating useable in engines of the period. The...
www.transmissiondigest.com
The Evolution of the T56. Here's an excerpt:
Check out the "billet" keys I pulled from the Camaro over the winter.
This is the reason I put stock keys back in the Camaro. Of course because I beat it senseless every time I fire it up, I obliterated the stock keys in just 2 weekends. I figured the above mode of failure was more preferable, so fresh "billet" keys went back in. I figured that this must be the way it is. Until I found that article. Tomorrow I'll be calling Rockland, Tick, RPM, and anyone else worth a shjt to try and get a consensus on the billet key market because this Corvette box is a way bigger asspain to pull than the Camaro box, which is why I used it for practice in the first place. I don't want to be doing this again any time soon.
The Corvette one is a pain.. same as a GTO and a CTSV one. That triple cone 1/2 makes it a little bit complicated. Bunch of extra parts.
Fbody T56 is much simpler and everything fits around that bearing on the end of the Mainshaft.
They have their weak points too from what I've seen. I've never worked with one or tore one down.
So my T56 parts order was supposed to show up last Friday. It did, minus a 2nd gear and billet 3-4 keys. Guess what goes on the mainshaft first? If you guessed 2nd gear, congrats. You won yourself a beer from your fridge. So Monday they check and proceed to overnight the parts. Got them yesterday, all is well. Forgot to put the syncro rings onto the mainshaft before pressing the small bearing onto the end, so get to take it all back apart again to do that as the 1-2 slider was too big to slide down the press. Today I set about popping in new seals and setting the bearing preload/endplay. Then I go for a real assembly and I begin to question where these raised teeth should be.
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Am I lucky or good. They're centered in the void of blocker teeth. Crap, should they be there or with the rest of the teeth? Onto the Google machine I go, never found an answer, but then it hit me: dingus, the thing only goes together one way! So I'm neither lucky nor good. But in my searches I happened upon this article:
Evolution of the T56 - Transmission Digest
BorgWarner designed the T-5 5-speed transmission that became one of the largest by volume of production. Using a very simple single-rail shift mechanism, the T5 was lightweight, came with a 5th-gear overdrive to add to fuel economy, and had a torque rating useable in engines of the period. The...
The Evolution of the T56. Here's an excerpt:
Check out the "billet" keys I pulled from the Camaro over the winter.
View attachment 203376
This is the reason I put stock keys back in the Camaro. Of course because I beat it senseless every time I fire it up, I obliterated the stock keys in just 2 weekends. I figured the above mode of failure was more preferable, so fresh "billet" keys went back in. I figured that this must be the way it is. Until I found that article. Tomorrow I'll be calling Rockland, Tick, RPM, and anyone else worth a shjt to try and get a consensus on the billet key market because this Corvette box is a way bigger asspain to pull than the Camaro box, which is why I used it for practice in the first place. I don't want to be doing this again any time soon.
Says I have 'no balls' for not tearing into my T56
Has problems
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Who did you get your parts from? Just trying to avoid them if possible so my car isn't down waiting on parts when i tackle mine.
I had one when I first got the Monte that I was going to put in cause they are pretty much a built t56
Yeah, I couldn't figure out how to say a dummied down way of explaining so I just deleted most of what I typed and
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