<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Glenn, are you saying that the layshaft bearing failure you described is more prevalent when the tranny has an O/D or is it a general problem? Thanks</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 3:52 PM Glenn Franco via Fot <<a href="mailto:fot@autox.team.net">fot@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Just finished another A Type Overdrive rebuild this afternoon. Next one I do I'm going to insist that the owner bring a spare 4 speed for parts or maybe 2.</div><div>I very rarely find an overdrive transmission that the layshaft bearing next to 1st that hasn't walked and tried to escape the case through the thrust bearing. I have tried in vane to remove the laygear with one that ground its way into the thrust bearing and sometimes the case. I sometimes get the laygear out but in most cases the trans case with the laygear is sent to scrap.</div><div>Does anyone have a solution, trick, special tool, to ease the laygear out. The normal way is to remove the small thust bearing with a magnet so you can tilt the laygear enough to get it out. I have even once resorted to a " Slugger Slide Hammer" and chain wrapped around the laygear to get it out. Didn't end well however.</div><div>I did read somewhere that someone is using a tapered roller bearing on that end which would make more sense than the original design.</div><div>Please advise</div><div>Thanks in advance</div><div>Glenn</div><div>TR6, TR250, Miata, 47 MG TC For Sale, 73 BMW E10 2002 being restored</div></div>
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