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Originally Posted by SeenSense
How much is all of this going to cost?
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Well, the necessary bit is the bearings, that's about $180 for parts (front and rear bearings for the input and main shaft, plastic oil guides for the shaft bearings, input shaft seal and axle seals) and $100-180 for labor. I gotta get the tools to do bearings and shaft rebuilds on my own. Since the tranny is off and I have 108k miles on the car I figured I'd put a new clutch in and replace the release fork since it's been wearing on the TOB in absence of proper lubrication. I figure that will be about $300-320 with getting the flywheel resurfaced. The Phantom Grip will be about $220.
That's about $900 on the high end which is about the limit of my budget. Otherwise I'd go for a better clutch setup or a lightweight flywheel. The first Nissan dealer I called wanted $1,400 to put new bearings in, including removing the tranny. Most of the other tranny shops in town gave me the impression they didn't want to open my tranny up and kept trying to talk me into getting a used tranny. I couldn't find a used locking tranny in the US and the CA ones were about $700-900 just for the tranny which may very well have the same bearing problem at some point. Not to mention they wouldn't ship to me. Non-locking transaxles went from $300-800 depending on the milage and I'd have to get a new driver side axle for a minimum of $100. So I got ambitious.
So I figure by doing this myself I found out that the only problem with my tranny was one failed front input shaft bearing and that the rest of the tranny, that I took very good care of, is still good. Who knows what I'd get used, some people are just plain mean to their cars. And I basically got a free clutch and Phantom Grip out of it. Of course I could have just fixed the tranny and slapped the old parts back in and saved some money but why pass up the chance to perk things up a bit. I was preparing to spend about a grand anyway, and most of that on labor and not parts.
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Yes this is the speech you use with your significant other when they want you to cheap out because this happens at the same time the mortgage payment is due. 
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After I get everything back together, we'll see if my optimism was well placed.
I've been sick for the past week so my thinking may be screwy.
I think the name of that cough syrup was Purple Haze 
Everything works great and the rainy day was well welcomed as I powered around the corners with no torque steer and awesome traction. I'm glad I kept my VLSD tranny and just replaced the bearings. Especially since you B13/14 guys bought all the darn VLSD trannys for my poor B15. 
Now if I can just find a kit...
