Another good day for firewood today. . . cold enough that the ground is frozen but no snow to cover the wood you are trying to cut and pickup. Firewood is a young man's game -- the novelty of cutting and burning wood from your own property quickly wears out when your stockpile constantly runs low.
For the record I did not get anything in the shop done yesterday -- ended up having to stay for the dog surgery. It ate some kind of string toy -- string is some of the worst stuff to get stuck in the gastrointestinal tract. A lot of times the majority of "stuff" stays in the stomach but sometimes small portions get passed to the intestines. Individual pieces of string connect the parts that have passed to the pieces remaining in the stomach and act like a saw to cut thru the bowel from the inside. Long story short after a couple hours we were able to get all the foreign pieces out and the pup is looking good this morning.
After firewood I did get into the shop to start on some transmission assembly. Started by laying out everything on the bench so I would not be looking for lost parts.
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I started putting pieces back on the output shaft -- following the instructions in the service manual. There are a lot of times where I just try to wing it and put things back the way I took them apart but I wanted to make sure I did it by the book this time. Does anyone see anything wrong with this first picture?
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Continued with assembly of the output shaft but found that things were not fitting quite as they should when installing the first gear/reverse synchro.
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I went back to the Toyota manual to make sure I had placed everything on the shaft correctly. The manual simply says install parts in numerical order. . . the orientation of gear "#2" matches the orientation I have on the output shaft, right?
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When I checked the Haynes manual though gear "#27" is flipped around in the opposite direction. That was my problem. Took everything back off and put the gear on in the correct orientation. Good thing I had both manuals to compare to each other or Id be scratching my head for quite awhile longer.
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Another post coming . . . as usual out of picture room.