E153 Rebuild

[Grrrrrrr!]

Couple of questions..


Is it possible to upgrade the earlier e153 to the dual synchros that the later models came with for sane money?

And anybody got a ball park figure for getting one of these rebuilt with new bearings/seals?

[MilfHunter]

I'd like to know as well

The later boxes with "proper" syncro's are narrower and lighter. They are easily recognised by a pressed steel 5th gear cover and I doubt you can use anything in them

[Malcolm]

The later boxes with "proper" syncro's are narrower and lighter. They are easily recognised by a pressed steel 5th gear cover and I doubt you can use anything in them

Sorry but that's not correct at all.

Lee there's a good post on mr2oc.com about rebuilding an E153, I think it's this one:
http://www.mr2oc.com/showthread.php?t=3 ... ansmission

I'm pretty sure you can switch to the better syncros, I think it's a matter of replacing the whole selector hub and the syncros but I think the gears are the same. There's prices on a lot of the parts in that thread too, probably can get them from Lithia but shipping might hurt