I had a 97 a couple years ago that lost 5th and had it repaired by a guy here. and now i have a 96 and decided to do the fix myself. my last truck i sold to my dad and 5th is still holding, a couple years now, hard towing.
I just lost 5th in the 96 a couple months ago and this has held for 10,000 km so far...
guy named hugh at g&g trans has seen it a couple times and being a machinest aswell he double nuts the bearing nut but takes a 10,000th off one side of the second nut, so it binds.. and he says he never had heard of one coming off so far..
The nuts are hard to track down but when you find one you take off the bevelled end of it because its too wide to grab all the threads anyways,, and this way you get more surface contact of the two nuts..bevel the second nut and brake kleen and green loc tite. them
hell of a lot cheaper than the main shaft upgrade, lot cheaper than any other fix out there. they say its just a matter of time with the stock shaft but it worked for me twice and 5 other people i have heard of...
I just lost 5th in the 96 a couple months ago and this has held for 10,000 km so far...
guy named hugh at g&g trans has seen it a couple times and being a machinest aswell he double nuts the bearing nut but takes a 10,000th off one side of the second nut, so it binds.. and he says he never had heard of one coming off so far..
The nuts are hard to track down but when you find one you take off the bevelled end of it because its too wide to grab all the threads anyways,, and this way you get more surface contact of the two nuts..bevel the second nut and brake kleen and green loc tite. them
hell of a lot cheaper than the main shaft upgrade, lot cheaper than any other fix out there. they say its just a matter of time with the stock shaft but it worked for me twice and 5 other people i have heard of...