Bearing retainer sizes

6PakBee said
That's interesting. I haven't had a lot of O/D A833's (one) but IIRC the retainer OD on it was around 5.125". Does your transmission linkage look like this?

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here's a pic of my o/d trans

yes i think your right about the 5.125" retainer OD, perhaps mine was swapped over at some point