Picked up a transmission from a friend that was ran dry on fluid. Pulled it all apart for my first time ever tearing apart a DSM trans. Surprisingly, there's only 2 bearings and races that are trashed (on the intermediate shaft assembly), and the center diff doesn't quite feel right to me. Otherwise, nothing else seems to have abnormal play, the syncros look great.
Just some of the metal inside:
Outer bearing has some bad marks, along with it's race:
The inside bearing is pretty bad, explaining the chunks of metal:
The race is just as bad. I'm assuming the black build up is gear oil that was super hot?
I'm going to pull the transmission that's still in my Galant and take that one apart to figure out what happened and if anything is usable. I have my fingers crossed I can make a good transmission out of the two with some left-over parts. I'll have to make more room to take the other one apart:
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