thing is on a helical cut gear like that.. you wont be able to feel it.... it probably makes up 5% of the contact area or less. that and I will have to put the entire tranny back together to test it out and I dont know that it comes back apart when you are done. I beleive that in order to get a good test of smoothness it would have to be reassembled with the new bearings (old ones were so far gone it wasnt funny) once together that may be the ONLY peice that will come back aparts, although it might not come back apart. because you have to clear the synchro cone for fourth gear and I dont think stuff moves enough to do that
