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"What does the pilot bearing have to do with the throwout bearing? A bad throwout bearing will not cause it to jump out of hi ..." ...........Oops. I had a brain fade. Sorry. I meant to say that I would only replace the pilot bearing if I found that it was bad. I will dial in the bell housing again. I have other main shafts that can be swapped out with this one and I will try it. I purchased replacement every thing from Mac's. I think the gears all came from Poland. I believe that is what the cardboard boxes said. The only used part used again was the transmission case. I had rebuilt the shifting tower a couple of years ago, and it was working good. When i took the trans apart for the rebuild, all of the bearings were badly worn out and the gear teeth were cupped from wear. since the new input shaft was new, I didn't mic the nose of the input shaft. This next time I will try the new pilot bearing for fit on the input shaft before I do installation. The pilot bearing was a new one about four years ago when I rebuilt the motor. The bearing between the input and output shaft as well as also both shafts are all new. Here is a thought, the old bearings were all worn so badly that they were somewhat self aligning. The new bearings are all running true to their shafts and they probably won't allow for any error on misalignment? Another thing that I noticed, while I am running down a hill in 3rd gear on compression, if I push the clutch in, the transmission relaxes the effort to push it out of 3rd and into neutral. Let the clutch back out and it resumes to build pressure to push it out of third gear again. So far I have about 150 miles on this new transmission. With the new transmission, the first time I drove it, it was pushing it out of 3rd on compression. Nothing has changed since then, to the good or to the bad.