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I would think so. Bilsteins don't really go bad very frequently. I have 60k on my car and my front coilovers were used and the struts are still working great.

Do yourself a favor and get the delrin FTBR bushings. Urethane will just start squeaking.

'04 Vert myself. MM also told me 300 front, 475 rear. I already have MM front covers with coupe struts which are probably 300lb springs but I can't be sure because I got the coilovers and struts used. What they failed to answer is what shocks would be best. Looking at the website I guess the...

Hey sometimes you get lucky!

Oh ok.

So I re-measured end play with the trans vertical and with a new gauge and end play was not within spec. Tried .043 shim, still not enough. Needed .048....which they don't make. So I ordered a 10 spline clutch disk which cost as much as the input shaft and put the stock shaft back in. End...

No I got that from your first post.... "Put back together with .0038 shim way too tight-then to 36 too tight then back to stock shim .0034 shaft would turn now but zero end play, went to a .0032"

It's interesting that you needed a .032 shim to get to .0005 end play, and I would have needed a .048 shim to get .0007 end play. That indicates poor quality control to me, since my shaft end play was greater than stock and yours was less than stock.

8620 has 50% better wear rates, but 9310 is malleable and deals with shock better. It will typically bend rather than snap.

Me as well but I found a couple of people who had good luck and no negative reviews at all. Of note, the AMP shaft is 8620 steel and the Tremec shaft is 9310. If I had known what Tremec used I'd have never accepted a different metallurgy.

I would prefer not to badmouth, which is why I only discussed issues with the part, primarily. They make these shafts in China or Taiwan and have admitted that these shafts for other versions of the T56 have all had many fewer complaints than for our T56's. I broke my rule of only buying...

Yep. Well my stock input shaft is fine, I'm clearly not driving in a way that stresses it very much. I ordered a 10 spline disk from McLeod and I'll sell this input shaft cheap. I may sell the 26 spline disk or just keep it in case the 10 spline does shear and forces me to buy a Tremec or D&D...

They aren't willing to exchange it or refund. Mike has been very informative, but not helpful....because he offers no solutions. If he had a shim to send me that would help.

Your input shaft looks better than mine...the teeth on the back of mine are pretty rough around the edges.

Yeah that's my thickest shim also. The OEM shaft is a bit out also, but I can correct it by re-installing the .041 or .042 shim. But the AMP shaft is further out of spec than OEM, which means I need .047x, .048 preferably, to actually meet spec.

Nope.. 2 thinner shims totally lock it up. :(

haha I didn't see the pictures when I read it the first time. Must be nice to be able to STAND under the car! I'm trying to find a .048 shim somewhere first. From what I read, supposedly overshimming can prevent lubrication from getting to the tapered roller bearing....though I can't see how...

Screw it, I'll try to overshim and see what the result is. With the consistency of measurements I'm getting it's not likely to work.

That'd be .061 of shim which would end up with preload. Which actually confused me, I always thought tapered roller bearings were supposed to have preload. Well I have to seal the case, do you mean old rtv that didn't get cleaned off or in the race pockets? They may be on to something. I put...

Thanks for sharing. Glad it worked out I the end. My problem is now I checked end play again (with a pretty new Mac gauge) and my end play is .0487, so I basically need a .048 shim to get in spec and that size doesn't seem to be made. They keep pointing the finger at other possible...

I asked for SVT1389 to be deleted because it's my duplicate account because I forgot this login for a while....just so you know I'm the same person. Definitely buy a shim kit. Mine had .0055 end play with the factory .038 shim. It did make it hard since the thinnest shim in the kit was .030...

Thanks. I feel telling me to let it wear in isn't really the best answer. They should mesh up perfectly from the start.

I'm having the exact same problem. All the bearings look perfect, and the race IS present in the back of the input shaft. TOB retaining sleeve is pressed in properly. End play is .002, which is the closest I could get. I found out when I re-measured end play after hearing the sound, that it...

Ok, I'm selling my '03 Cobra seats that I have in my notch since I'm going to sell it or get some seats that will sit a little lower in the car. They're in really great shape, a couple of marks on the driver's kidney bolster which you will see in the pics when I get them up. You can't even...

Ok, I'm selling my '03 Cobra seats that I have in my notch to go with some seats that sit a little lower in the car. These work best in SN-95's, in a Fox they are a little higher than the stock seats. They're in really great shape, a couple of marks on the driver's kidney bolster which you...