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eventually junked the trans. many would agree that you may be looking at that since input shaft bearing replacement is a difficult procedure requireing extensive (and expensive) trans rebuild expertise.


If this is indeed the problem it's not too difficult to change the input bearing. I did it on my 88 Trooper tranny.

Once the tranny is down you will need to take off the front cover [Linked Image]

You can see the input bearing in this picture
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Another with the cover off
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Here is one with the front case off of the tranny, you can see the bearing that needs replaced there on the top main shaft
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The front part of the tranny case will unbolt from the tranny center plate shown here you have to do this to get to the bearing.
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This picture shows the front half of the tranny case off, this should show everyone that was doubting that you can change the bellhousings to mate a 2.6 5 speed to a 2.8 5 speed or a 3.2 five speed just by changing the front cover other than the front cover they are identical
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