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Originally Posted by PropMan
It probably just needs seals, drives good and shifts fine. Y'all have me thinking i may go thru it myself, what's to lose. My initial thought was to find someone with a good rep semi-close and havee it done to save me some time.
sweetk30- where did you get parts?
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PropMan - I am in 100% agreement with sweetk30. The NP205 is stupid simple, and I just did my first one just a few months ago. I highly recommend the rebuild kit from
Offroad Design It may be possible to purchase a cheaper kit, but those guys are fantastic and even kindly answered some stupid questions I had.
I enjoyed the process so much I'm probably going to do another one as much for fun as for profit. It's quite relaxing to clean everything up, get it painted, and assemble it back together. Sort of an adult puzzle.
BUT - having said all of that, my overall project would have been better off had I spent the money rather than the time. I was quoted $385 for a "seals and bearing" rebuild of mine at a local transmission shop. I have no idea if that was a good price, but it seemed so given the rebuild kit was $198 retail. I'm sure they get a better wholesale deal and may have re-used bearings that were perfectly fine that I replaced simply because they were in the kit. If it's something you want to do I'm confident you can do it. But don't discount the time and convenience factor of dropping it off at a transmission shop. The shop won't need to be 205 specialists, but given how common they were and mostly still are I'd bet some old fella in the shop would qualify as an expert.