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California98Civic · 09-02-2014, 01:33 AM

How I spent 12 hours on a Saturday with a 1993 Metro transmission and a friend...

The exposed gears in the main case:

Inspecting synchros:

That odd fifth gear spot (gears not yet in place) outside the main case:

Aha! It's not in neutral:

That was the first time I have worked with an opened-up transmission. Very useful for developing greater familiarity with them for my own transmission rebuild sometime, maybe next year (I hope).

09-02-2014, 01:33 AM	#1 (permalink)
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