I have 2 US 5MT's that my WRX swallowed and spit back out, haha. One is missing a 3rd gear and another one is missing the 2nd gear. I want to get them rebuilt, but have no clue how much it is going to cost.

Any ball part figure?

Anyone done it?

- Alex

are you sure its only the gears that are messed up?

Alex, are you talking about just a basic rebuild (fix broken stuff with stock type stuff), or a better rebuild (replace cheap stuff with better stuff along with replacing broke stuff with better parts)

For the trannys I've dealt with (No import ones, just domestic) If you can tear down an engine, you can do a manual tranny yourself. In that case, I'd say $150 to fix broke stuff, $300 to do it beefed up. If you don't think you can rebuild the tranny and want to pay someone to do it for you, $400 and $700. Again, you are asking for an import tranny, so I would add $100 bucks for the estimates that I gave. But a tranny is a tranny, manual ones are not really that difficult.

/\rcanum

What he said, Auto trannies are the hard ones.

i agree that the auto is harder and more expensive. manual aren't as hard to rebuild as everyone thinks although if you run into one requiring all the gears to be pressed off/on and can become a pita pretty fast! that being said, i think you can get them rebuilt for a reasonable price yet i feel Arcanum's prices are rather low.

Alex
take the trannys to the guy in Sacto. shiv knows who i'm talking about. the did my last one and its holding up pretty well. the found lots of things that were incorrect on the last install.
tom

Originally posted by Dick Fitzwell
although if you run into one requiring all the gears to be pressed off/on and can become a pita pretty fast!

Hello,

Dick hit it on the head. Unfortunately, the Subaru manual tranny is one of "those" trannies. You get to remove a couple parts off each of the two shafts and then press everything off together. "They" took what makes tranny rebuilding hard and incorporated it twice :)

If you can take everything apart, Alex, then bring the whole press-off mess to your local, friendly dealership (don't you have a good relationship with the Marin dealer?) and have them press it off, then you can reassemble everything with the working parts (assuming you have enough good condition parts to make one tranny). Make sure everything is very clean - no metal shavings between parts, etc. Then get it all organized and ready and have them press it back together...

Joel

Thanks, guys!

I guess I am going to crack them open and see what happened there. ;)

- Alex

Good luck! What is your plan on the trannies when you fix them?

/\rcanum

Originally posted by Arcanum
Good luck! What is your plan on the trannies when you fix them?

/\rcanum

http://www.i-club.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=42
:D

Originally posted by Steppin Razor
http://www.i-club.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=42
:D

Good one!

/\rcanum

It cost about $300 for the parts to old_duwels M/T because it lost 1st gear on both shafts as well as damaged a few of the synchro teeth.

Originally posted by tom@kartboy
Alex
take the trannys to the guy in Sacto. shiv knows who i'm talking about. the did my last one and its holding up pretty well. the found lots of things that were incorrect on the last install.
tom

Tom, could I get a reference to this person you are talking about, and a price range if you know? I might want a rebuild soon and it would be nice to stay in town.

jonathan

Mine was 700 in parts and with labor added in, it was like 1,300.

they charged like 250 for taking down the tranny and another 180 to open and replace parts plus some crap!

Not even a loaner car http://www.i-club.com/forums/images/icons/icon8.gif

It depends on what you call a rebuild. I am looking for a junk trans, so that I can get it rebuilt to the point where it will be able to take major abuse. Total cost...probably ~$1,800.

Damn a rebuild costs alot in the US! No wonder people like to get entire dog box transmission that way they don't have to pay for the labor to install the gears in their old cases.