W-59 rebuild?

Has anyone here successfully rebuilt a W-59 themselves?

 

THE W59 SERIES AND THE R155 SHARE MOST OF THE SAME ISSUES AND PARTS
For you guys with the w59 transmission , look here. This is the complete FSM for a 1996 . http://web.archive.org/web/201011270...searchable.pdf

Noisy bearings in W59 http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/1st...ml#post9323268

Loss of 3rd gear http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/1st...hird-gear.html

Linear spring swap for clutch pedal ( write up with pics)

http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/1st...ap-tw-how.html

Linear spring pictures http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/1st...-pictures.html

AND here : http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/te...ation-your-5-speed-transmission-write-up.html

 

I pulled it totally apart on my own - not too hard if you label everything. There were a couple of steps that weren't in the factory service manual.

When I got down to the meat of it, I realized that buying a nice puller and the press I would need to get the bearings, gears, and synchros off and the new ones on would cost more than getting a professional to do it. Might have tried it for the experience, but it would have been an investment of time I didn't have. So I had the pulling and pressing done by someone else, then put it all back together myself. Works great - I'm up to 14k miles on it, just pulled a trailer from NC to NM and arrived today.

 

Subbed! Good stuff.

 

Here's what it looked like before I took the shift forks off. Might have some other photos from the process, I'll have to look through my phone.

 

A workshop with a view. Nice!

 

If you can post more pictures of the rebuild that would help me out a lot. I'm confident in doing it myself...I've just heard horror stories on other forums about doing this rebuild.