DeTomaso Mailing List: September 97, Message #30
     



From: MikeLDrew@aol.com

Subject: Re: Re:crunching synchros

Date: Mon, 1 Sep 1997 21:55:02 -0400 (EDT)



Jack wrote:



> Last I heard, a

full-bore o'haul was $3500. 



>>>Mine cost a total of about $2800, in 1993.  Of that, $1200 was simply

labor.  If all I needed was a synchro or two, the tab would have been less

than $2000, but once they took it apart, they found some of the gears had

been chewed up as well (the situation Jack referred to) so I had to buy some

new (aftermarket, fingers crossed!) gears.  If I had it to do all over again,

I would have spent the extra $500 on OEM or authorized replacement gears

(Butfoy is now making gears for ZF to original spec, unlike the aftermarket

gears which differ in subtle but important ways), but for now I'll just home

my gearbox works when it comes time to drive it.



Mike



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