Help Identify Transmission

Sure carefully mark the output and input shafts, if possible with something larger like a yoke inserted and a clutch disc and carefully turn the input and count turns against exactly 1 turn of the output

If you are careful you can tell. A way to make it more exact and easier to see is to count the input shaft turns and get TEN turns at the output so now your 2.43 becomes 24.3 and so on. Easy.

It's easy I tell you easy.

This is the best way. There are some references that state you can tell the first gear ratio by the number of grooves in the input shaft. However, there are cases where this is not accurate. 67Dart273 has the best way, for ANY manual transmission.