Finally pulled the trans out of my Galant and took it apart to see what happened. Pretty much, exactly as I thought....stripped gears. The gear clusters on the bottom are whats going into the trans, above is the ones that were in it:
Just a few of the gear pieces:
My plans have changed slightly after finding a huge crack on the case of the trans I got from my friend. So far, as much as I can tell the trans case out of my Galant is good, so that'll be used. The center diff is being switched as well, due to mine having it's teeth crunched as well. If I can re-assemble correctly this should be a decent transmission with a GVR4 first gears, and bronze syncros. My old syncro's were the brass ones.
Thought I'd take a pic of the transmission rebuild table, in our living room:
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