Plastic Drive Gear

[Tom F.]

I dropped the plastic drive gear into the tail shaft of the transmission while replacing my speedometer cable yesterday. I decided to call it quits for the day. Is there any why of fishing it out or do I need to pull the transmission?
Another thought is to leave it there, but would it cause a problem with the transmission?

[Joe R.]

Re: Plastic Drive Gear

Tom,

I believe you dropped the plastic driven gear into the tail housing. Should not be a problem.

JR

[Edward J.]

Re: Plastic Drive Gear

Tom, The problem I see is if the car is a T-10 ,when the car is put into reverse the plastic gear will be chewed up. The reverse idler and rev gear are right there once it rolls down the housing.

[Gary R.]

Re: Plastic Drive Gear

Tom
Maybe these will help. This is a Muncie M-20 I just rebuilt but the T10 is similar.

Here is the tail coming off & the main shaft, there not a lot of parts in the tail but could get caught up in the rev gear.





This is looking into the tail, I'm installing the rev ball & spring but you can see what it looks like.

[Tom F.]

Re: Plastic Drive Gear

Gary:

Thanks for the pictures. In looking into the tail shaft I have a good idea where the plastic drive gear is sitting. I just stopped at NAPA and picked up a flexible
retracting tool. Will give that a try before I pull out the transmission.

Tom

[Michael F.]

Re: Plastic Drive Gear

I would let it go, plastic will be chewed up and no harm, no foul, been there done that on camaro back in the day (muncie trans)