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Got it all back together. In moving it off the bench I noticed there's a bit of play in the stuff inside, makes for a slight noise when moving the tranny around. Is this normal or did I screw somehting up?

Got it out with a pilot bearing puller from Advanced. The pullers teeth WOULD have been just a bit too thick, but the previous renter kinda abused them and shaved some material off, allowing the teeth to justttt barely get underneath a couple of needles. Just powerwashed all the case pieces, knocked all the seals out, and polished the mating surfaces. I have not yet removed/replaced the countershaft bearing, it seems to be fine and I have no press available to re-seat fifth gear squarely. Is the countershaft bearing something that fails commonly/should be swapped, regardless of how "fine" it feels? Also, diff bearing removal. Ideas?

P.S. thanks a bunch for the help so far guys, couldn't do it without you.

Got it all open and apart. All bearings/seals out but that stupid countershaft needle bearing. The thing is seated in a blind hole, no easy way to get it out (without some expensive tool) that I know of. Maybe there's some really awesome simple way to get it out that everyone has been using for forever? 'Bout to try heating and beating.

Replacing every bearing I can get to. Input shaft bearing failed immediately following a ton of new hardware (brake booster, poly trans mount, brake lines, master cylinder, poly shifter bushings, valve adjustment, valve cover gaskets, oil change). I've been rebuilding moped transmissions and engines for years, so hopefully this isn't any more difficult, just a larger volume of work with more moving parts. Hopefully. We'll see how it goes; I plan on performing surgery tomorrow afternoon. Will definitely do the stacking, seems like it'd remove a lot of remembering and potential guess work.

"Step one: Remove transmission" - complete.

Got the axle out with a better prybar and a bigger hammer... kinda surprised it moved. Tranny came out with a bit (read: shit ton) of the dowels sticking and binding, got it on the ground eventually though. There's definitely some axial play on the input shaft, but the diff moves freely. It's nice to see things might not be screwed up TOO badly for once.

Any advice for a first timer ripping open his tranny?