dose any one know where to get a good rebuild kit for a r150f? MC site says they are not selling them. and after much searching i have yet to find a good kit? thank you for your time

 

Good question; I ran mine low on gear oil & will need to replace it at some point (2nd gear syncro almost gone). I didn't know M/C wasn't selling them....?

 

i havent called them, but on there website it says "Attention: We are currently not selling any Transmission Rebuild Kits"

 

Oh, I was planning to buy a total rebuild from them....

 

http://www.mikesspecialtyrepair.com/trans.html
http://www.makcotransmissionparts.com/R150F.html
http://cobratransmission.com/index.p...x&cPath=3_2181
http://www.drivetrain.com/parts_cata...rhaul_kit.html

 

thanks hippy i did find those while searching, i should have been more clear, i wanted to know what kits have other people used. ie what would you recommend, i know MC has a good rep on rebuild kits and i wanted to know if there was another company with an equal rep for trany rebuilds.

 

i just finished slapping my w56 back together with kit i got from MSR. (going in the truck this weekend hopefully) i dont know if he has stuff for the R150f, but i was quite pleased with the quality of the kit i got from him for my 5 speed. all oem replacement bearings matched exactly down to part numbers of the ones i took off the trans. and syncros and seals, and gaskets

the only problem i had, was that he forgot to ship a bearing in my kit. turns out it was on national back order, not really his fault. but mike personally handled it and shipped me one for free. took a week or two, but got some free stickers too.

make sure you have a 20 ton press for sure though. these things are tight!!!

 

His site says he does. And that would be where I'd buy a kit from too. The other options/sites seem a little vague on stating exactly what they offer.http://www.mikesspecialtyrepair.com/trans.html

 

yeah. i lucked out.
first a little background...or so i have heard
i heard that when toyota was developing these trucks/ transmissions they used commonly available "off the shelf" bearings (such as the 6307) as input bearings just so they could get the thing out the door and start making money off them.
after toyota got their stuff built, released and out the door, they realized that they were loosing money on rebuilds. so to recoup that money they changed a bearing inside the trans (usually the input bearing) to something that either only toyota could get or something really expensive.
this way it would force people to let toyota do it, as opposed to joe-shmo's shop.
sure anyone could get the bearings but the cost of one of the "custom sized" bearings to a single end user would be outrageous. toyota didnt care because they were having them made by the truck load and that drove the cost down.


that being said, i lucked out because my input bearing was the old style (6307) so my bearing kit was cheap...er. lol