YEP ITS FINALLY DONE!
I took off from work at about 4:15 and headed over to the transmission shop and I'll tell you what...these guys are amazing.
Some of the interesting stuff that they found and fixed along the way blew me away...
First up was my engine...besides finding out that it is a genII block with my older stuff put on he also found that one of my plug wires had fallen down and was burned through from my exhaust...so I have been running on 7 cylinders (which explains the weird backfires I've been getting for a little while) so he put a new plug wire on and it took care of the backfiring.
Next up was my TV cable....yeah no joke...it was in TWO PIECES...as in I didn't have a TV cable at all.
So they replaced it with a brand new TV cable.
Also the bracket that holds the tv cable was not even mounted properly and was moving all over the place so they fixed that as well.
So that was the new stuff. Other than that its amazing...this truck is like a whole new animal now. It has a brand spankin' new 2nd generation 700r4, new lower stall torque converter (and he said that they wired it so that when it goes into OD it automatically goes to full lock so it reduces the heat).
He mentioned something else about the old tranny; which btw we found out that it wasn't a 2nd gen after he pulled it and looked at the case...I can't remember...but it had to do with the lock up mechanism on my old tranny that he said wasn't working so it was building up a lot of extra heat.
They hooked up the tranny cooler and its working like a champ as well.
Ok...onto the transfer case...he called me and I gave him the ok to go ahead and work on it as long as they had it out...so they took it apart, inspected everything, replaced the seals and resealed the two halves together again so now I have absolutely no drips at all. By fixing the leaking transfercase and replacing that rear main this truck is perfect now.
Finally the new rear d-shaft went in...this thing makes my old shaft look like a toothpick. So now it has all the same size u-joints so I don't have to use that stupid conversion joint and best of all, its finally the correct length so my slip yoke isn't being pulled out like it was before.
The truck is a blast to drive now and he was actually surprised by the gearing...at first he said to keep in out of OD but after his afternoon of test driving he said that its actually about perfect and that he would recommend 4.56's instead of 5.13's if I'm going to stick with these tires. They measure out to 37" so 4.56's, 37's and the low 1st gear and OD would be about perfect.
He said just drive like normal for now and before I got to texas (in a couple months) just bring it back and he'll drop the pan and inspect everything before I go. So this'll give me a couple months to put some miles on it and make sure all the bugs are worked out.
I'm so happy!
I took off from work at about 4:15 and headed over to the transmission shop and I'll tell you what...these guys are amazing.
Some of the interesting stuff that they found and fixed along the way blew me away...
First up was my engine...besides finding out that it is a genII block with my older stuff put on he also found that one of my plug wires had fallen down and was burned through from my exhaust...so I have been running on 7 cylinders (which explains the weird backfires I've been getting for a little while) so he put a new plug wire on and it took care of the backfiring.
Next up was my TV cable....yeah no joke...it was in TWO PIECES...as in I didn't have a TV cable at all.
So they replaced it with a brand new TV cable.
Also the bracket that holds the tv cable was not even mounted properly and was moving all over the place so they fixed that as well.
So that was the new stuff. Other than that its amazing...this truck is like a whole new animal now. It has a brand spankin' new 2nd generation 700r4, new lower stall torque converter (and he said that they wired it so that when it goes into OD it automatically goes to full lock so it reduces the heat).
He mentioned something else about the old tranny; which btw we found out that it wasn't a 2nd gen after he pulled it and looked at the case...I can't remember...but it had to do with the lock up mechanism on my old tranny that he said wasn't working so it was building up a lot of extra heat.
They hooked up the tranny cooler and its working like a champ as well.
Ok...onto the transfer case...he called me and I gave him the ok to go ahead and work on it as long as they had it out...so they took it apart, inspected everything, replaced the seals and resealed the two halves together again so now I have absolutely no drips at all. By fixing the leaking transfercase and replacing that rear main this truck is perfect now.
Finally the new rear d-shaft went in...this thing makes my old shaft look like a toothpick. So now it has all the same size u-joints so I don't have to use that stupid conversion joint and best of all, its finally the correct length so my slip yoke isn't being pulled out like it was before.
The truck is a blast to drive now and he was actually surprised by the gearing...at first he said to keep in out of OD but after his afternoon of test driving he said that its actually about perfect and that he would recommend 4.56's instead of 5.13's if I'm going to stick with these tires. They measure out to 37" so 4.56's, 37's and the low 1st gear and OD would be about perfect.
He said just drive like normal for now and before I got to texas (in a couple months) just bring it back and he'll drop the pan and inspect everything before I go. So this'll give me a couple months to put some miles on it and make sure all the bugs are worked out.
I'm so happy!
Glad to hear things are going your way! I've personally been fighting with changing my K5's tranny out, and have certainly not enjoyed my self thus far, lol
