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Originally Posted by Fasterthanyou
I've rebuilt a few manual transmission and they're easy so long as you've got the factory manual for them.
They're a LOT easier than an automatic. I know you could do it but you need to pay close attention to details and have a pretty good photo memory. It helps to have a lot of space to lay the parts out and take high quality digital pictures of it while you take it apart.
I would always rebuild a manual trans myself.
Last thing you HAVE to do before putting the trans back in is shifting through all the gears while it's out of the car. My buddy's cousin isn't very bright and he installed some gears incorrectly before I came back to help them finish... we installed the trans and it wouldn't go into any gears. This was on a front wheel drive SHO where you need to support the engine, drop the subframe and do a whole lot of work to get the POS out.
Get steel forks and if you have friction syncro's do NOT use a slick manual trans fluid like synthetic modil 1 crap. You NEED the friction to get the syncro's up to speed or you'll be fighting every gear!
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I agree, there not hard to bulild, ive built a T5 myself once or twice..if you look at how it goes together it all starts to make sense.
Auto trans's arnt that hard, its just easily intimidated people..but once you do one part of the trans..say a forward drum and its contents you realize that its the sam internally as the other drums and their contents..just takes patience..