It's a Toyota W55 5spd, if anyone cares. Anyway, it supposedly shifted OK except when doing quarter mile runs, or otherwise under a hard load. Then it didn't like shifting much, but it did like grinding. This, I'm told, is typically from worn synchromesh gears, which are the softer brass transitional gears that assist the transmission to go from one gear to another without grinding. Makes sense. Very logical. So we got some synchros for it, and dissassembled.

The old synchros look fine. Go figure. The shift forks look a little worn to me. Everything else looks good. I hope to have the new shift forks in a couple weeks, and reassemble with new forks and new synchros, checking all clearences.

Then we just have to install it in the car, and wait for Sean to test it under load.

The transmission in the vehicle right now was supposed to replace the one on the bench. It's the same kind (W55), but it suffered catastrophic failure during a run, and now wont shift at all. The consensus is that a shift fork broke. Before that happened, it had the same hard shifting problem as the one it was supposed to replace.

If the new parts dont fix the problem, it should still be a good street transmission, but useless for racing, and the Suprang will get a C4 automatic trans :D

The old shift forks might go into the broken trans, possibly making it useful for casual street use as well... or maybe all the parts will just be used for art.