I bought the rebuild kit off ebay, the sellers name was "acerl". I think it was 260 and included bearings, syncros, and seals. I did have to order some misc. stuff like washers, friction dampers, and the counter shaft nut. Those parts are not supposed to be reused.
Hopefully this will help you on the press.

thanks

 

hmm, i never noticed any rebuild kits. i'll have to check them out. thanks for that info. have you run this rebuilt tranny yet?

thanks for the pic! i sucked it up tho and just went to harbor freight and bought the 20ton press. :-) i'm sure i'll have more uses for it in the future.

-Luke

 

I actually did it during summer last year. I did have a little grind in third when shifting at high rpms. I gave syncromesh a try and now it's butter. I hear the new Honda MTF works just as good. I think it has to do with necessary friction where the syncro and gear mate. And that's why Honda only sells them as a set(gear, syncro, sleave). If you have good syncros you can look on autozone's site and they sell a bearing set. Or get on ebay http://stores.ebay.com/TRANSPARTS-AT-THE-BEST-PRICES

 

hm ok thanks. yeah i was looking at majestic's prices for seals and bearings. i've actually got two y8's i'm looking to build one good one from. i'm hoping that i'll have atleast a good set of gears and syncro's. any best ways to test if they are within spec? i don't recall anything in the helms about checking synchro's.

thanks for the help

-Luke

 

if they're still pointy they're good, if they're rounded they're bad, that's about it

 

very nice job, great details

 

I got my rebuild kit from http://www.standardtransmission.com/ . If I remember right i paid 275 for the SOHC rebuild kit and it 360 for the DOHC ones.

 

hmm i just noticed something. on both y8 trannies the mainshaft bearings did not need to be pressed off. in fact one of them is sitting kind of edit:"stuck" in the top of the casing. the other slides on and off the shaft. hmm i can't imagine both trannies would have spun the main shaft bearings.

thoughts?
-Luke

 

:thinking: I seem to remember mine coming off really easy but the new one needing pressed lightly on. I do remember that all of the press work was light. I didn't have to apply much pressure.

 

the main shaft bearing basicly slide off, the counter shaft ones are the one that take some effort.