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Originally Posted by itjstagame
Carlos, Just to ask, maybe it's obvious, but did you use the synchros from the donor transmission too? I haven't opened anything up yet but see synchros selling separately on ebay for some reason and wasn't sure where they fit in to the swap.
Also, in one of the writes ups I saw mentioned about pulling the bearings or using new bearings, where do these fit in to the picture?
I just want to make sure that all I need are the gears themselves and a new gasket (and locktite and tranny fluid) or anything else like new bearings or bearing grease too.
Oh and last one, but to include, what tranny fluid did you end up using? From what I've read I've seen Dextron III ATF suggested, but still haven't confirmed what our cars had originally or if a generic ATF would work instead.
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There was no donor tranny. I bought both MP2 gears new from the Saturn Service department. I also bought a Saturn tranny gasket kit from same. Along with the gaskets the kit included some snap rings and a tiny transmission fluid cone filter. The idea was that I wanted my mechanic to have everything he needed to get the job done. That is overkill for you.
The only thing you absolutely need are the two gears. When you remove those gears you will have to undo a few other parts (like the snap rings?!?!?).
The key to the Saturn gear swap is that you don't have to drop the tranny. Remove the front driver tire and the 5th gear tranny cover is sitting there just *begging* to be opened.
I would also explore saturnfans.com for write-ups on Saturn tranny assembly/disassembly. That will lead you to other websites like differentracing that are dedicated to Saturn S-Series stuff. This is the *full* transaxle disassembly, so you can see more of the guts :
Disassembling the Saturn Manual Transaxle
I can't remember the tranny fluid but it was ATF.
CarloSW2