My new tranny parts (rebuild kit, reverse gears, and fourth gear/input shaft) came in yesterday. Today my special tranny wrench came in so I was able to actually start ripping the muncie up for the rebuild! I got it all apart. Getting the speedo gear off really gave me some trouble but I was able to eventually get it off by placing it through some holes on our table saw with some mounts from our press. Here is a picture of this work place. A barrel full of aluminum cans caught the main shaft and gear cluster when it fell when the speedo gear separated from the output shaft.
Here is the torn down muncie. I wire brushed nearly all the housing as best I could to get the excessive crap off to make sandblasting easier.
Another pic of the cleaned up housing and tranny parts.
Old input shaft, meet new input shaft. The new one is on the right in case you guys can't tell.
I have a lot going on for the rest of the week, but I'm hoping on Monday I can sand blast AT LEAST the transmission (I have a LOT of stuff I COULD sand blast right now, but won't need it done for awhile yet). Then I can start the actual rebuild. Do you guys paint your tranny housings or do you just leave them bare cast metal?