Finally broke my Albins after 7 seasons

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well kinda. Not sure what is wrong with it yet but it was making some noise when I was prepping it. Pulled the drain plug and found small amounts of metal so decided it was best not to drive it. Problem was my first trip was on Thursday and it was the Sat before. Called Kevin and setup to have it dropped off but there is always that off chance he wont have or cant get parts quick enough to get my car back and save my season. Some parts for the Albins could be 4 weeks or 6 months.

I was pretty bummed at this point. That was until I got on FBMP and found a NEW in the crate Albins with my same R&P and gear ratio in town! Only change was 4th and 5th were just slightly taller which is perfect. So I did what any of us would do and called my buddies. So after talking with my buddies (we love spending each others money) it was decided to go grab the new transmission and swap it out. It was alot of work but the car ran great this past weekend and now I guess I am the owner of two Albins. 🤦‍♂️

I had plans to rehab the car this offseason and have it gone through at that time. The nose cone was starting to leak pretty bad and making a mess of things anyways.

Fingers crossed its just a bearing or something.
 

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Were there is a will, and cash, there is a way.

Congrats it worked out.
 
I'll bet that Albins you bought is the same guy I talked to a month or so ago. He wasn't very negotiable. He knew once the season started someone would need it ASAP and be willing to pay nearly same price as a new order. Glad it worked out for you.
 
How hard is it rebuild those?

Can it be done at home? Or do you need a press and a bunch of special tools?
 
I had the same issue with my mendi some time ago,

Now, I have all the gears on the shelf, extra spider gears, sliders and shift forks, trying to save up for a ring and pinion to have on the shelf, and also have the special bearings, last rebuild Daniel Artigas had done in two days, due to the parts being right there,
 
The problem with the H-pattern synchronized Albins is they have stopped inventorying these specific gears and small parts. Weddle keeps a small selection of "standard" gear ratio's on the shelf, but if the ratio you need is out of stock at Weddle, you could be waiting for Albins to make new ones, which could be months.

There are still a healthy amount of those older synchronized Albins running around. Services seem to come in waves and parts are flying off the shelves for a few weeks, and it takes a few months to get inventory back on the shelf.

They are still a good trans up to about 850 HP/TQ. No reason to get rid of them, but keep in mind parts availability is limited and cost has increased dramatically.
 
Good call on picking up a new trans! Rebuild the old one and post it for sale or keep it in the garage as a spare.
 
SeanRitchie said:
The problem with the H-pattern synchronized Albins is they have stopped inventorying these specific gears and small parts. Weddle keeps a small selection of "standard" gear ratio's on the shelf, but if the ratio you need is out of stock at Weddle, you could be waiting for Albins to make new ones, which could be months.

There are still a healthy amount of those older synchronized Albins running around. Services seem to come in waves and parts are flying off the shelves for a few weeks, and it takes a few months to get inventory back on the shelf.

They are still a good trans up to about 850 HP/TQ. No reason to get rid of them, but keep in mind parts availability is limited and cost has increased dramatically.
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Guess I should consider buying 2nd and 3rd gears just in case. What else?
 
SeanRitchie said:
The problem with the H-pattern synchronized Albins is they have stopped inventorying these specific gears and small parts. Weddle keeps a small selection of "standard" gear ratio's on the shelf, but if the ratio you need is out of stock at Weddle, you could be waiting for Albins to make new ones, which could be months.

There are still a healthy amount of those older synchronized Albins running around. Services seem to come in waves and parts are flying off the shelves for a few weeks, and it takes a few months to get inventory back on the shelf.

They are still a good trans up to about 850 HP/TQ. No reason to get rid of them, but keep in mind parts availability is limited and cost has increased dramatically.
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Once I get "The Call" I will determine what all I need to do with it. Not sure what the cost would be and what would be swapped over from one setup to the other, but I was told I can just convert it over to a sequential.

Could you shed some light on that? From what I know I don't have to do anything but change shifters as far as fab work goes and then my HP rating goes way up.
 
Kevin McMullen told a buddy of mine about $5-6k worth of parts to convert over to a sequential.
But Sean might have a different number?
 
$20k-$25k all said and done to convert synchromesh to sequential.

Mounts the same, install sequential shifter and run cable. Fab work is the cheap part.
 
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