Had another one of those, WTH have I been doing all these years?! moments. Started on rebuilding the AE86 transmission. It’s got some decades worth of spooge accumulated all over it. I’d been poking at it with a screwdriver and spraying it with citrus degreaser every night throughout the week. Today decided to attack it, and this time I picked up nitrile gloves. Never really liked using mechanic gloves when wrenching. These nitrile ‘rubber’ gloves were one size fits most, and as such were loose on my skinny hands, but they still worked fine. And damn they keep your hands clean! No scrubbing multiple times with handcleaner and nail brush. And I’m sure much better for skin.
So with these gloves, and the other previous WTH item, the air impact wrench, I’ve made easy progress. The input bearing is indeed toast, wonderful amount of play on the input shaft. Getting the output housing off I see shiny bits of metal stuff floating around. Hm, not something I wanted to see. We shall see how all the gears and bits look soon….
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