I just recently purchased a car that was in need of the transmission to be rebuilt.
Being as I work entirely to much and didn’t want to build the transmission myself I decided to enlist jerra and give back to the community and the people that contribute to it.

I spent 1500 on a rebuild with jerry as my transmission was in need of quite a bit of reconditioning..
When I got the transmission in the car everything seemed ok. I drive the car around the block . I have all my gears . Sweet! . I park the car and go to take it back out of the garage and reverse crunches me.

?? that’s not good .. Maybe it was my fault? I got to put in in reverse again . Same thing . But I didn’t pay to much attention. I figured id just need to adjust the clutch pedal, as I just put a new clutch in as well.

I go and drive the car again and 5th gear was a little funny to get into. “eh new synchros no big.”
After wards 2nd and 4th wouldn’t engage properly.

I called jerry up on this right away.
We came to the conclusion that the shift cables should be culprit of the gear not engaging correctly..

Im ok with that as I tend to agree with it. But reverse was still grinding.

I decided to take the transmission down because now I have 90 miles on the tranny and reverse it getting shittier.

Being as I just paid 1500 for this rebuild I decided to look to see if all the parts that jerry said were put into the transmission were really there , because I cant fathom a fresh tranny to have grinding issues..

My fresh redline mt-90 came out dark pearl grey with plenty of flake so Im not happy already.

I pop off the end cover and find a problem right away.
The reverse synchro ring has a deep gouge in it already after 90 miles.
The reverse spring was not placed properly in the case and was rubbing the ring.



Now im not thrilled at all!
Next the nuts on the ends of the clusters have been reused multiple times. it’s 2 6 dollar nuts. Why are they hammered beyond belief? I didn’t get that pic because I was to eager to check the rest of the trans out.
I take off the gears and I come across The intermediate plate .
WTF is this ? Copper flexible sheet ?


Poor mans shim job, quite possibly the most ghetto work ive seen for shims. These shims don’t cost much of anything and when rebuilding something like this , especially when the customer is paying why skimp .
Completely unacceptable by anyone’s standards.

Now that the plate was off and im in complete disgust I find one of my gears has a chip.
Wtf again . Nice job inspecting the tranny jerry.



Now im worried if he actually did the 4 spider upgrade .But he was a man of his word and did do the upgrades he mentioned. ( 4 spider and shift rail mods).

I was already in here I might as well go to the end. I take off the diff housing and I find another present from Santa jerry clause.

The differential shim all torn up . Another unacceptable thing to find..
It’s the wrong size for the clearance and decided to clearance itself to the tranny .

Ive talked with jerry sought out for him to make things right.

I asked simply for the price I paid in labor as the parts had to be paid for regardless.

He replied with “” QUOTE

I dont have any solutions that will make you happy. And I have no desire to discuss it any further. I made a simple mistake with reverse spring that could have been corrected in the car in about 30 minutes tops.. I suspect by not paying you off you will make a thread about it. I have most responses already prepared. I thought about posting about the situation before you do. But response to your concerns all make you look pretty stupid really. . I am not into thread fights. Doesnt really solve anything. I just made a thread bash on a horrible paint job I just got. There were quite a few surprised I paid for the work and wasnt asking for any kind of refund. I certainly could have insisted he fix the car at his costs. And I am pretty sure he would have complied. I gave up that option by deciding to fix the car myself.


But as stated by jerry in his own thread after seeing the work that was performed on his own car , He did not want the person to attempt to correct the situation.

This was the case in my transmission.

He deems his work completely acceptable because “ It works”
I gave him the scenario the just because jb weld works its not and acceptable fix. Neither should his home made shims. He also told me he doesnt want to wait 2 week for the correct parts if he can make his own.

“ Jerry- I use jb weld in my cars” It works great.


I have heard many horror stories of Jerry but I have seen some good work performed by him as well

Many people speek very highly of jerry but this work that was performed on my transmission is unacceptable.

I will not be doing any further business with jerry nor would I recommend anyone to seek mechanical work to be done by him.



This is NOT an attempt to seek to make things right . Im just making others aware of the kind of things that will come from him.