[Fot] TR-4 / TR-6 tranny layshaft bearing mod?

[Stutzmans]

At my request, my machine shop guy tried to find somebody who could modify 
it to take extra bearings.  Everybody said it was too hard.
Bruce
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Alexander" <n197tr4 at cs.com>
To: "Tony Drews" <tony at tonydrews.com>
Cc: <fot at autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2013 9:54 AM
Subject: Re: [Fot] TR-4 / TR-6 tranny layshaft bearing mod?


> Ed W.  (FOG1) can be very helpful.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
>> On Nov 16, 2013, at 8:46 AM, Tony Drews <tony at tonydrews.com> wrote:
>>
>> Has anyone modified the TR-4 / TR-6 tranny layshaft assembly to accept
> larger, higher capacity bearings?  Turns out the root cause of my 
> transmission
> failure was the failure of the front needle bearing in the layshaft 
> assembly.
> Before I do the parts search / purchases, I thought I'd check to see if
> there's a longevity improvement that can be made there.
>>
>> It's been a while since the box was apart, and let me tell you - with a
> buggered up layshaft shaft the disassembly is challenging.
>>
>> I'll be replacing, input shaft, layshaft and 3rd gear at least.  Also had 
>> a
> weird failure where one of the pins that the spring slides onto in the
> overdrive is broken off - may have been an assembly issue.
>>
>> I may have most of the parts needed for the rebuild, we'll see what uncle
> jack's tranny parts stash includes.
>>
>> Cheers, Tony Drews
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