Sinking Creek 4WD Association

Piney wrote:I've always heard that once a good amount of clutch material comes off the bands and into the fluid, you're better off not changing the fluid. reason being the friction material floating in the fluid is all that's keeping the clutch bands operational.

ah, for a quick correction on that fact, its not that the material is keeping the clutches working, its more like the fluid has gotten so thick and the seals so bad, that it goes into "hydraulic shock" so to speak, and the seals wont well, seal the apply pistons.
also, its reccomended that auto trannys have their fluid changed after every "event" or two. heat=bad tranny fluid=bad tranny=cody walkin....
consider synthetic fluid and a big @$$ cooler and fan...

when I was up at Millers when i think last monday, his neighbor(or something, he came walking up through the field before turbo and leach got there) and I started talking about stuff, and he happened to mention using a refrigerator condenser or something as a cooler. He said he ran one for a while and it worked better than any other cooler he'd run previously.

maybe we could hook cody up with a old refrigerator to part out on the next trail cleanup

VerticalTRX wrote:

affende wrote:

Piney wrote:I guess I owe you a hand R&R'ing a trans.

any help would be appreciated ... i think i alread conned Terdonkadonk (TerryD) into helping me rebuild it ... he might even have a few tricks up his sleeve in making it shift even better than before

One word of warning, if you let him make it shift "firm" it will be more like the front end comes off the ground when it shifts. I rode in his S-10 that he did some shift mods to, your head would bounce off the back glass everytime that thing grabbed a gear. J/K though, he knows his auto trannies inside and out, he tried for months to get me to run a C6 in my '79 but I like the ol 4spd.

i saw him at advance tonight and he told me to ask you about how his S10 shifted ... lol

its one thing to break a D35 shaft off the road, but if i do it in 2WD on dry pavement from shifting into 2nd at 30% throttle .... well, you get it

maybe the bands need adjusting? I have a code reader cody if you need anything.

i'll keep it under neck-snapping...i promise....kinda....

what can you do for my 4R70W?

Piney wrote:what can you do for my 4R70W?

with a little research, just about anything you want.....what do you need?

eh, nothing immediately. just would be cool if the 5.0 could chirp 4 tires from 1-2 (fulltime AWD sploder).

well, the thing about the tranny in the S-10 was it was fully hydro....the tranny in cody's jeep and the sploder is that they're both hydro-elect., making that suicide shift impossible, because the computers are both setup for granny-mode. but, w/ an aftermarket controller and a hand full of 5/16 washers, i could really kill you....hahaha

what about a rough shifting and wandering 46RE jerkbox?

BlueDodgeRam wrote:what about a rough shifting and wandering 46RE jerkbox?

prolly worth something in scrap metal

this is def. true, but until i get something else(nv4500 swap) its gotta work

anything w/ enough research behind the build. the wandering and rough shifting sounds like a sensor problem.... i've seen anything from coolant temp sensors to MAF sensors cause weird tranny actions. the MAF on my buddies escort ZX2 caused his tranny to skip around and slip like hell...dont ask me how, still aint got that one figured

TerryD wrote:

Piney wrote:what can you do for my 4R70W?

with a little research, just about anything you want.....what do you need?

lol....you just doomed your free-time ... now everyone with an auto is going to have you help them rebuild it lol!

well, one thing that's on my side, you can ask matt, if i say "you need to put money here" and you don't, i'll bitch till you do or walk.....i dont half ass tranny, engine, or carb stuff... people will fry your ass for it...