Bumping out of 2nd

67Dart273 said

a machine shop talked me into "pressing a hard ring" over the end of the shaft instead of replacing it. That eventually failed, injected a chip into the cluster / input gear, and pretty much trashed it AGAIN.

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FYI, I had the hardened ring fix done on a '71 Saab trannie (which all failed due to too small a needle bearing design on the mainshaft's nose) and it held up fine; the guy made it a bit longer than the original and used better needles, to correct a faulty factory design.