Your setup is almost identical to mine,did you use any spacer on top of your 2.5 springs?front and rear?
Not sure what spacers you're talking about but i didn't add anything special
Your setup is almost identical to mine,did you use any spacer on top of your 2.5 springs?front and rear?
Not sure what spacers you're talking about but i didn't add anything special
I did the 3.25 kit(2.5 plus 3/4)spacers,looks like something is on top of your front springs
Just wondering if you’re using spacers on top of the springs,I run the rc 2.5 with 1 inch spacer and 1.25 body lift
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Where's the update? I'm bitting my nails in suspense!!
I thought this turned into a what lift is @U8MYDZT running thread.
I’m gonna order the new cable & new PS hoses, not gonna drive it till the new hoses are in. But I’m also adding a trans cooler in front of the radiator, so I’m gonna do all that at once this week, after family checks out. Have 12 people at the house right now.
I honestly was totally lost by the question. Couldn't figure out why my TV cable needed a spacer... LMAO.
I will be patiently waiting for an update. GL!
Me too, and me too!
let's not bury the lead — I rebuilt a mother f'ing automatic transmission. I feel like I deserve a badge or something.
Congrats - Hat's off to you.
I got my back from the shop today. It was in there since June 1. Crazy town. Over a month in the shop and $1,962.
I told you I would share what he did. I wish I knew. All the receipt said was "Rebuild Transmission". I asked, and he said it had a new torque converter. That is all I know
Congrats - Hat's off to you.
I got my back from the shop today. It was in there since June 1. Crazy town. Over a month in the shop and $1,962.
I told you I would share what he did. I wish I knew. All the receipt said was "Rebuild Transmission". I asked, and he said it had a new torque converter. That is all I know
If I'm paying somebody 2 large to do a job I'm going to need him to at least challenge himself by fabricating an inventory of tasks completed. Although referring back to my economics post on page 1, for $2k it needs to be rebuilt with a significant warranty. It's hard to verify the rebuilt-ness, so the best you can do is probably to have it stop doing whatever caused you to bring it to him in the first place and then pray you never need to see if he honors the warranty.
Speaking of which, do make sure you read the fine print on the warranty, it likely includes you bringing it back to him for a checkup in the first 30 days. I know the one time I paid a shop to rebuild a trans that's what the deal was.
Big update:
....and now I've got questions. When I put the first bolt in there was a decent gap between the TC & flexplate, like maybe 1/8" or 3/16". I got the bolt in, but not by a lot (I'm still surprised how short those bolts are for what they need to do). When I got to the 2nd or 3rd bolt, the TC slid back to close that gap & be mated to the flex plate. Maybe this is normal, IDK. So my confusion is that when I put the TC onto the input shaft you have to put some effort in to get it to click ALL THE WAY IN. I'm a little surprised that part of the mounting process involves the TC coming back out a smidge. I realize the TC shaft doesn't actually seal to the trans so it probably doesn't matter, just not at all what I was expecting.
Big update:
Dropped the trans last night, expecting to see evidence of fluid all around the bottom edge of the pump. Instead, the whole thing was bone dry with the exception of a puddle right at the bottom/outer edge of the bell housing. So I guess fluid was leaking out the pump seal then dripping down off the torque converter; the puddle was directly below where a drip would form on the TC. Besides the puddle, there was no evidence of runoff, so It had to be coming from directly above. There was a ring of fluid on the TC in the area where the TC contacts(?) the seal and the seal itself was wet on the surface, and then a "dribble line" from that recessed portion of the TC down to bottom edge, directly at the 6 o'clock position....I'm assuming that dribble line wasn't from me removing the TC. The engine hasn't been started in several days, but we did have to rotate the TC to undo the bolts so I'm surprised there was no evidence of it having rotated with a curved dribble line or something, or spray from the TC spinning when the motor had been running.
So I pulled the pump, replaced the seal, gasket, and sealing washers on the pump bolts. Sorry no pics. My Right Stuff was all dried up so I couldn't goop up the dipstick last night so I didn't put any fluid in, will do that today. Got the whole thing down, pump pulled, seal replaced, trans re-mounted in about 5 hours. It's a little bittersweet that we're getting good at this. Working on the trans is fun and I look forward to doing it again on somebody else's jeep. Dropping/replacing is a whip and I hate it.
When I removed the bolts there was the slightest bit of evidence of thread damage (the threads in the case) so I chased them with a 5/16-18 tap. If they gave me any trouble I had heli-coils on standby, but I was able to get them all torqued to 175 INCH-lbs. I fully expected to find fluid around the pump from that mistake but nope!
This is now the 3rd time we've re-installed the transmission, but the other 2 times my helper did the TC bolts while I rotated the engine. This time we traded jobs so I got to see it from a new perspective, and now I've got questions. When I put the first bolt in there was a decent gap between the TC & flexplate, like maybe 1/8" or 3/16". I got the bolt in, but not by a lot (I'm still surprised how short those bolts are for what they need to do). When I got to the 2nd or 3rd bolt, the TC slid back to close that gap & be mated to the flex plate. Maybe this is normal, IDK. So my confusion is that when I put the TC onto the input shaft you have to put some effort in to get it to click ALL THE WAY IN. I'm a little surprised that part of the mounting process involves the TC coming back out a smidge. I realize the TC shaft doesn't actually seal to the trans so it probably doesn't matter, just not at all what I was expecting.
New TV cable should be here today. But I dropped my seized Adams driveshafts off at a DS shop, won't have them back before Friday so no test drive for another 24-48 hrs. Which is fine because my grille swap & trans cooler project is still in mid flight. Should have that done today.
This is exactly how mine went together. But my TC pilot got hung up on the crankshaft and made a loud pop when it finally seated. You're fine