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Fellow club member Jim C brought his mule over to my shop to check out the awful growl in the transmission. Here are a few pictures of the "event". After closing the valves on the engine, we stood the beast up to work on it. With the drive shaft out, we found excessive play on the output shaft. Upon further investigation, we found 2 of the 4 studs holding the seal retainer that also asts as a pre load on the bearing stripped out. This caused the bearing failure shown in the picture with the cover off. There was also damage done to the syncronzer and wear on the teeth of the rest of the gears.
UPDATE: the syncronizer shown in the third picture has 3 small shift plates, all 3 were gone and we only found one in the transmission case. Half of the bearing for the output shaft in picture #2 was gone and if youlook closely you will see 4 of the roller bearings and the worn retainer around the shaft. the rest of the roller bearings were ground up by the spinning transmission.
UPDATE: the syncronizer shown in the third picture has 3 small shift plates, all 3 were gone and we only found one in the transmission case. Half of the bearing for the output shaft in picture #2 was gone and if youlook closely you will see 4 of the roller bearings and the worn retainer around the shaft. the rest of the roller bearings were ground up by the spinning transmission.
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