Now tranny issues

racenmotorsports · Nov 23, 2013

I've searched through the forum and I'm probably just missing it. Anyway, my POS mustang crapped the T-5. It's definitely bearings inside it. Start it up in neutral and you hear the grind, push in the clutch and it goes away. I turn the drive shaft by hand and can feel the bad bearings grabbing and releasing. Anyway, it's a 95 t-5. What trannys can I swap it with and it'll go? The junkyard is having a black friday sale and I plan on getting me one from there. If it don't work they give 100% cash back. They have 4 cars from 95-98, so I'm hoping one of those has a good tranny in it. If not, what's needed to put a 99-03 in there - they have several of those?

I'm so freaking tired of this car, I just want to get it running and sell it. I bought it after I was in Iraq for a year and it was an impulse buy. I'll never break even on the money I've sunk in it, I just want it gone. I'm tired of it sitting on my trailer and I'm ready to cut the SOB up for scrap.

Thanks for the rant and appreciate any advice anyone can give.

CC'S95GT · Nov 24, 2013

the t45 from the mod motors will not work at all.
Your only options are another t-5 from a 94/95 5.0 Gt or Cobra or a t-5 from a 94-04 3.8.
The 3.8 pilot bearing inside dia. is smaller than the 5.0 pilot bearing. but the outside dementions are the same.

A t-5 from a fox MIGHT work but you'll need a fox bellhousing and the location of the shift fork is slightly different and might interfere with the exhaust.
(the fox bellhousing and input shaft is 3/4" shorter than the SN tranny)

RichV · Nov 24, 2013

CC sounds like this is on a V6. You should have a lot of options on a V6. Possibly 94-04 since the 6ers were so similar.

Let one of the V6 gurus in here...

Saint · Nov 24, 2013

Put an AODE with high stall. Then you will not have to worry about things like that.

Orange 94 · Nov 24, 2013

Yes, any manual 94-04 v6 will have a t5 in it.
Any manual 94/95 5.0 will have a better t5 in it.

I believe you can make the fox t5s work, but its not worth the trouble. Junkyards should be littered with v6 cars.

racenmotorsports · Nov 24, 2013

Ok so it looks like I might be able to find something. Doing a search on their webpage, it looks like they have a 94, 98, 97, 99, 96 and 2000. Of course it doesn't say what kind (V6 or V8), but I should be able to find one in that group. Yeah, this is for a v6 that I'm replacing it in. I thought I read something about the 99-04 tranny has some different things in it for the speedometer, is that true, and if so, how do you get around that?

Saint, I'm not real interested in putting in an auto, that seems like a bunch of work to do and I want to do it on the cheap, not buy a big stall convertor etc, etc etc. Although it's a consideration.

If you couldn't tell, I'm pretty frustrated with this car. I've put a ton of work in it and every time I turn around it's something else. I'm chasing an a/c leak that I can't find anywhere, the seats suck in it and it's just not been as enjoyable as I though it would be. Hell, I even thought about stripping it and making it a dirt track car even though the body is sound just to punish it.

racenmotorsports · Nov 29, 2013

So I found a tranny at the junkyard. It was the last car we found. What a pain, we had to get them to lift it off the ground and everything, but.... it looks like it was a rebuild. Looking through the fill and drain holes, the gears look good and it shifts real nice. Now to figure out how much and what kind of fluid it needs....time to search again.

racenmotorsports · Dec 1, 2013

Got it all swapped out today, spent all day yesterday and today cleaning everything down. The clutch was not a centerforce one like the PO said, it was hencho in china. Anyway, the clutch looked good so I swapped the pilot bearing, put on a new throwout bearing and put it all back together. The biggest problem I had was my exhaust is true dual, no cross pipe and welded all the way back. I finally had to cut it to get everything out, but once I decided to do that it was much easier. My little HF tranny jack made installation much easier.

Fired it up on the jackstands and shifted through all the gears and no whining of anything like before. I think I got it all fixed. Came back an hour after I ran it and the shield was dry so hopefully the rear main leak is fixed. The only leaking I had was out the rear of the tranny, but I think that's residual from where I pulled the plug and put the driveshaft in, I filled it before I put it in the car.

For anyone who's looking, I tried the bread trick to get the pilot bearing out, it doesn't work. I could have gone and gotten the tool from advance, but I just decided to use my air chisel with the point on it. Used that to get it spinning and then broke it up and then popped out the busted up shell. I spent probably 45 minutes with the bread and about 5 with the air chisel... Not here to debate proper tools, just what I used to get the job done.

Tomorrow, weld the exhaust back up, change the engine oil and take it for a spin with my dad, who helped me out a lot and then take back the old tranny for core charge and get a set of stock GT mufflers to get rid of the crappy flotech's the PO put on it.

racenmotorsports · Dec 4, 2013

It's done, still leaks on the rear of the motor, looks like pan gasket was bad after all. I'm going to forget the GT takeoffs, I found the system was hitting the UCL's on the rear, once I moved the pipes off that, there wasn't so much of drone at 1700-2500 as before. I'll just keep it like it is for a while.