Th350?

[justwhatido]

Pulled Engine, found the bellhousing cracked. Replace the case, buy a rebuilt transmission? Local transmission shop (Steve's Offroad uses him exclusively) will charge $65 to look at it, approx $250 to replace the case. Will not give a rebuild quote till they look at it.

Suggested that I leave the 203 transfer case attached and the same $65 will get it checked out too?

OK guys, good deal or not? Where to look and how much to pay for a good rebuilt (daily driver) tranny and 203?

Fred

 

[Silver84k5]

i had my trans rebuilt and hopped up a little bit, with Some HD internal parts that i cant remember the name of. for around 400 bucks. i think it was a little less then 400, was a couple years ago....

 

[k20]

$250 for a case?!?! HD th400 cases sell for 75-125 here........and the guy I take mine to charges $325 to rebuild em, using your case. When I took him my tranny last time.....the only reusable parts were the case & the output shaft, still $325.

 

[75-K5]

Just find a blown tranny at a junkyard or similar place and have them swap the guts over. They must be selling gold cases.

 

[justwhatido]

clarification

The $250 includes te original $65, the case, and installing the guts into the new case.

Fred

 

[75-K5]

That's not a bad price then.

 

[k20]

does that 250 include new parts, or is it just tossing all the old stuff over? It wont turn into one of those, yeh itll be $450.......yeh we hadta swap out all the clutches, steels, bands......yadda yadda.....

 

[justwhatido]

The $250 is just evaluating a nd swapping

A rebuild will be additional. But here again, it's not a few hund on top of the $250. It will replace the $250 and the $65.

After looking at waranteed replacements on line, it looks to be a better deal than I thought at first.

Thanks guys, pics to follow after the engine build starts (tomorrow?)

Fred

 

[sweetk30]

post some pics of the damage. then we can tell you if it can be repaired by a pro. lots of cases are fixed for trail and street use.

 

[1979jimmy350]

you should look in to just replacing the bellhousing. Summit sells a replacment bell housing for the 350 tranny which is stronger than stock

 

[justwhatido]

bellhousing

seems to be all one piece with case in this case.

 

[1979jimmy350]

yea the 350's are a one piece case but you cut off the old bell and put on the new one with bolts. Do a search i rember some body did it before on a 350