32RH transmission rebuild

She's back!!! After a lot of part hunting and a shitload of cussing I got her back together and on the road! The deep aluminum pan I put on took a LOT of mods to make it work with my tummy tuck, but man was it worth it. She drives fantastic!! You can definitely feel the difference in the way the transmission behaves. Again I am beat after a day of wrestling with the beast. I will post some more updates after I get some rest. View attachment 323253View attachment 323256
You went DEEP I hope you don’t rub that thing off in a rock,or does your engine skid cover it?
 
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Holy crap guys!!

The Jeep was running absolutely flawless for the first 150 miles then all the sudden the Jeep just shuts off on my 4 mile trip to work and refused to start again. I know there are only a few things that can make the Jeep up and die so I went and got myself a new CPS. Unfortunately because my engine is lifted and at a stange angle because of the tummy tuck the CPS will not come out without hitting the flange between the firewall and trans tunnel. FML, after an hour of bending cussing and contorting I got the new sensor installed and the Jeep fired right up. Took it the rest of the way to work and everything was fine.
After work I got about a 1/4 mile down the road the Jeep stumbled then shut off again and wouldn't start. Waited about 20 minutes and she fired back up but would just stumble in gear and die.
So after a shitload of troubleshooting (i can provide details if wanted) I found out that not only did my CPS die but my distributor bushing was tossed, the shaft was wobbling side to side enough to put a huge grove in the post on the cap. It also caused a nasty misfire once warmed up and ONLY in forward drive gears. ( fucking strange I know) Replaced the distributor and she runs like a top again. What a nightmare after all the transmission work, talk about a buzz kill.
 
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Holy crap guys!!

The Jeep was running absolutely flawless for the first 150 miles then all the sudden the Jeep just shuts off on my 4 mile trip to work and refused to start again. I know there are only a few things that can make the Jeep up and die so I went and got myself a new CPS. Unfortunately because my engine is lifted and at a stange angle because of the tummy tuck the CPS will not come out without hitting the flange between the firewall and trans tunnel. FML, after an hour of bending cussing and contorting I got the new sensor installed and the Jeep fired right up. Took it the rest of the way to work and everything was fine.
After work I got about a 1/4 mile down the road the Jeep stumbled then shut off again and wouldn't start. Waited about 20 minutes and she fired back up but would just stumble in gear and die.
So after a shitload of troubleshooting (i can provide details if wanted) I found out that not only did my CPS die but my distributor bushing was tossed, the shaft was wobbling side to side enough to put a huge grove in the post on the cap. It also caused a nasty misfire once warmed up and ONLY in forward drive gears. ( fucking strange I know) Replaced the distributor and she runs like a top again. What a nightmare after all the transmission work, talk about a buzz kill.
Glad it’s fixed
 
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Holy crap guys!!

The Jeep was running absolutely flawless for the first 150 miles then all the sudden the Jeep just shuts off on my 4 mile trip to work and refused to start again. I know there are only a few things that can make the Jeep up and die so I went and got myself a new CPS. Unfortunately because my engine is lifted and at a stange angle because of the tummy tuck the CPS will not come out without hitting the flange between the firewall and trans tunnel. FML, after an hour of bending cussing and contorting I got the new sensor installed and the Jeep fired right up. Took it the rest of the way to work and everything was fine.
After work I got about a 1/4 mile down the road the Jeep stumbled then shut off again and wouldn't start. Waited about 20 minutes and she fired back up but would just stumble in gear and die.
So after a shitload of troubleshooting (i can provide details if wanted) I found out that not only did my CPS die but my distributor bushing was tossed, the shaft was wobbling side to side enough to put a huge grove in the post on the cap. It also caused a nasty misfire once warmed up and ONLY in forward drive gears. ( fucking strange I know) Replaced the distributor and she runs like a top again. What a nightmare after all the transmission work, talk about a buzz kill.
Even though it’s obvious, you sit there and wonder if it’s from the work you’ve done.

After I did the transmission swap on mine, any little noise or stumble that came up worried me to high heaven and back. “Is this it? Is this the fruit of my labor and amateur work?!”
 
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Even though it’s obvious, you sit there and wonder if it’s from the work you’ve done.

After I did the transmission swap on mine, any little noise or stumble that came up worried me to high heaven and back. “Is this it? Is this the fruit of my labor and amateur work?!”
Dude 100%!!! I knew it couldn't be related but I just couldn't get the thought of pulling the trans out of my head. So glad it was just really bad timing for the distributor to fail.
 
Dude 100%!!! I knew it couldn't be related but I just couldn't get the thought of pulling the trans out of my head. So glad it was just really bad timing for the distributor to fail.
Glad you got it all figured out and running well. It's a great feeling.
 
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Even though it’s obvious, you sit there and wonder if it’s from the work you’ve done.

After I did the transmission swap on mine, any little noise or stumble that came up worried me to high heaven and back. “Is this it? Is this the fruit of my labor and amateur work?!”
This is me, every time I touch anything.
 
Hey dude great rebuild, you don't happen to know or have a photo of the bellhousing to transmission bolt pattern. I took my transmission off, rebuilt it... But the bolts got mixed up — so now I have no idea how to mate up the correct bolts to mount it back onto the engine facepalm.
 
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Hey dude great rebuild, you don't happen to know or have a photo of the bellhousing to transmission bolt pattern. I took my transmission off, rebuilt it... But the bolts got mixed up — so now I have no idea how to mate up the correct bolts to mount it back onto the engine facepalm.

Np, here you go

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It also caused a nasty misfire once warmed up and ONLY in forward drive gears. ( fucking strange I know)

Not really that strange. In fact, one of Jerry's friends had the same issue that cost her a lot of money until she got over her fears that I was going to be mean and finally got in touch. Her rig would run perfectly up the hill to Big Bear, start crapping out and running bad on the way down. Other folks sent her down the shotgun parts approach by having a new PCM installed and a few grand in other bits. We had her swing by, toss it on the DRB, set the timing back into the middle of the range and it was 100% after that.

What no one else figured out was the timing was just at the very edge of the range. Wear and slop in everything, cam drive gear, cam thrust bearing, distributor drive gear, etc. would work fine when the motor was stressed one direction, but when going down the hill and coasting off the throttle in several places, it would shift the timing out of range and make it run like crap. All we did was move it back into the middle of the range the PCM can compensate for.
 
Not really that strange. In fact, one of Jerry's friends had the same issue that cost her a lot of money until she got over her fears that I was going to be mean and finally got in touch. Her rig would run perfectly up the hill to Big Bear, start crapping out and running bad on the way down. Other folks sent her down the shotgun parts approach by having a new PCM installed and a few grand in other bits. We had her swing by, toss it on the DRB, set the timing back into the middle of the range and it was 100% after that.

What no one else figured out was the timing was just at the very edge of the range. Wear and slop in everything, cam drive gear, cam thrust bearing, distributor drive gear, etc. would work fine when the motor was stressed one direction, but when going down the hill and coasting off the throttle in several places, it would shift the timing out of range and make it run like crap. All we did was move it back into the middle of the range the PCM can compensate for.
Absolutely happened exactly as described. It took some earnest talking on my part to assure her that she'd like Blaine once she met him and that he was not going to add her to his pot of bubbling porridge. :ROFLMAO:
 
Absolutely happened exactly as described. It took some earnest talking on my part to assure her that she'd like Blaine once she met him and that he was not going to add her to his pot of bubbling porridge. :ROFLMAO:

There's a whole bunch of folks involved in that fiasco that need to pony up for all the parts and repairs they made her purchase.
We've dealt with a similar one where the owner wouldn't listen at all.
Calls me and says the rig randomly cuts out and stops running right.
He describes more of what it is doing. Then he goes through the extensive list of parts they have shotgunned at it. I tell him to stop throwing parts at it because none of the ones he has replaced so far are known for an intermittent issue so just quit doing it and try to correlate the random with a condition so we can try to diagnose it. That and based on what he has described so far, I believe it has a wiring harness issue that is getting pinched or similar when the rig is doing something like a turn or a bump that jiggles the harness.

Nope, we've checked all that and it is good. No, I don't think so, I really think you have a wiring problem.

I'm going to replace the fuel pump. No, that won't fix it, fuel pumps are not intermittent just like the PCM, CPS, and all the other crap you've replaced are not intermittent.

Calls me later and says the new fuel pump made no difference. Yes, I know that, we talked about it, you have a wiring problem.

I finally got him to drive it enough and pay attention to when it happens that he could reproduce the symptom taking off from a stop into a right hand turn uphill. Great, now go find the wiring problem. We already checked it. Check it again. We did, it is good. No it isn't, find the problem.

They tore deeper into the harness and found some chafed wires, repaired them and it has been perfectly fine since.

The very first phone call when he described the problem and the intermittent random nature of it was the first time I told him he had a wiring issue. I don't know why they ask and then ignore the answer and then do that for months while getting the same answer over and over.
 
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