The last time I felt the shock I felt tonight was when I took about a clock my dad owned when I was 10 years old. While my dad was out, I grabbed a screwdriver and opened up the back of the clock and springs and gears flew everywhere!!
That was the scene tonight when I decided I would clean up and start changing the gaskets on my 4 speed transmission. The first thing I did was pull the input shaft... then I heard a noise I dont care to hear again for a long time... the sprinkling and falling of 20 bearings into the gears inside the transmission. *sigh*
I pulled out magnetic probe and started to dig for the next 2 hours...
Worse was my discovery of what I thought was a broken gear...
<Gear> But of course after reading the shop manual, I see that this is normal... *fewf*
Anything special I need to do to reinstall the bearings? I was planning on setting them in the clutch gear with some grease and setting the assembly back in.
Any other tricks to putting this back together?
Mark
