Well, it looks like this whole attempt is doomed for failure. I got the tranny opened and there was entire chunks of metal (the remains of the input shaft bearing) sitting down by the magnet. So now it looks like I may need to replace the entire input shaft, as well as figure out how to get what's left of the bearing out of the trans' housing.

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m...er/p_00013.jpg
http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m...er/p_00012.jpg

Sorry the images from my phone look like crap, but I couldn't find AAs for my camera.

Any suggestions/ideas? (Other than going back in time and kicking myself in the face for not doing something about this sooner.)