My pal C. Greene lent me an axle with two good cv's thereon.

I dropped the header on the (maybe) offending side, took off the shift rod (and while there milled a cool firewall bushing and installed it to fix other rod-slop) then R&I'ed the different axle into place.

We then test drove the 6 car and eliminated the CV's as the issue revealing the crunchy thing in Forrest's first.. gear to be just that.... a condition known as FGC.

So with a case af first gear crunch, first gear is toast. I like toast.

However, for this engine, (and me),....... I want a good setup for a 901 box with a 3.0-6 pushing it down the lane.

Question is: What does one expect to expend on a fairly reliable 901 mated to a 3.0 -6 ?

There is no simple answer to the question.
My Pal Steve says consider Boxster 6 tranny.

My pal Larmo says throw a match on the car while "tuning gas fed carbs with a leaky fuel line and call Geico..." Just kidding .......
but the options are few with the age of 901 technology.

I am down to plucking the tranny (AHHgin!) .....and pulling the 1st/ reverse stack off and fixing that issue that is,>>> or buying a newly rebuilt box. And then Who Knows?

I just want to drive the beast along the way to a good reliable (HeHe) solution...

Any past experiences on 901 repair costs?

Replace the main cage bearing "while your're there" and re-hab the stack.

Have the bearings cryo'd. and rehab all the sycro's and gears.

$2500 plus or minus any other bad stuff....another slippery slope while your in there.

Paging Dr Evil...please pick up the white courtesy phone...Dr Evil...

The good Dr. did, in fact, pick up my PM to him a little while ago and he was spot on in terms of one relatively inexpensive way to go about a fix. Pluck the 1st/reverse gear stack and replace everything that is suspect. Bolt it back together and drive until another stress issue arises.....

I've taken apart a tranny or two..but never reassembled one.... and like an idiot, i sold a five gallon bucket of gears and parts and pieces for just about nothing....