The Official Hot Rod Thread - Part 4: Burnouts for Distance

[churchmouse]

Man that's a great idea!

Love it

 

[churchmouse]

Got a feeling this won't be cheap. Lost all forward gears in 2013 Silverado this morning. Pulling out in front of car and got on the gas fairly hard and when she got to 2nd gear there was a thump and the engine rev'd. Doesn't go into any forward gears but I still have reverse. Got it towed to the shop and hopefully will have a diagnoses today or tomorrow. Kind of surprised me with only 99k miles and it's the old 4 speed.

That about the miles the one in my our Yukon let go. It died at speed on the interstate as CKW was rolling to work.
It pushed the front seal out and spewed all the fluid out of it. I picked up a matching core from my buddy’s bone yard and had it rebuilt. Then we swapped it out for the dead one.
If you liked it it is gonna set you back some serious change.

 

[churchmouse]

Zoinks. Do you know if it's a 4l60e or a 4l80e or something else? I've heard the 60's can be fragile. 80's are supposed to be tanks.

80’s come in the bigger rigs. 3/4 and 1 tons. They are akin to the turbo 400’s of old in strength.
I believe they make an 85 now but that has to be a 6 speed.

 

[ws6guy]

It's only a half ton so I'm sure it's got the 60 in it. The bell housing was wet when I looked at this morning so it might have blown the seal. I've never had a auto trans worked on before so I'm sure I'll be in sticker shock. Hell the last transmission I worked on was 5sp manual in a ranger back in the late 90's. Besides that I've never had any transmission troubles so I guess I'm over do.

The truck is in great shape so it will be getting repaired. This is the 1st issue I've had with it, unfortunately it's going to be a costly one. I was only planning on keeping the truck another year or 2 but now it might end up being longer. Got to get my moneys worth out of this repair LOL

 

[ws6guy]

No I'm trying to find the best deal on a rental. I've got the firebird I could pull out but it's never seen salt/snowy roads and I really don't want to start that now.

 

[ws6guy]

ouch! $2800 to rebuild it. Said it was something internal, not enough fluid on the outside to be a seal.

 

[churchmouse]

ouch! $2800 to rebuild it. Said it was something internal, not enough fluid on the outside to be a seal.

It was $1900 when I did my Yukon so this sounds about right. There are many mechanical and electrical parts to be replaced inside it. Solenoids and harness.
You already know I am sure.
None of that is cheap.

 

[ghuns]

Don't know if GM is still doing it, but when the 4L80E in my '91 suburban lost reverse, I was able to buy a factory rebuilt one from the dealer for quite a bit less than any local shop wanted to rebuild it. Came with a 3/36000 warranty.

 

[churchmouse]

I had a buddy do this. He was happy with the results.
I know guys look for units with the factory rebuild sticker on it at the bone yard.

 

[bobzilla]

Leaving the gm dealer last fall it’s getting hard to find gm reman units. They want the dealer tripping apart the broken one and rebuilding them

 

[ws6guy]

The shop said it be about $1000 more to get a reman. But he did say remans are getting harder to come by and he'd have to check with the vendors to make sure they had some in stock. Seems like everything else lately, low stock. The shop is in brownsburg and I've heard nothing but good things about them. They only do transmissions so I'm thinking they might not be the cheapest but hopefully do a good job.

 

[ChristianPatriot]

Any quad guys here? Banshee’s were always the coolest back in the day.

 

[mikek]

ouch! $2800 to rebuild it. Said it was something internal, not enough fluid on the outside to be a seal.

Try Tony’s transmission in Greenwood. He has done 2 of them for me. One in a Silverado and one in a blazer. Have never had an issue and were around $1200 and he did the R&R.

 

[mikek]

He also did th TH350 in my wagon last year

 

[ChristianPatriot]

Well fellas. Looks like my fun toy days are numbered. We need to put a fence around our backyard and we need a new roof. Something’s gotta go. Seems like we’re due for a market crash anyway so I should probably sell now anyway while the used car market is still up.

 

[thunderchicken]

Well fellas. Looks like my fun toy days are numbered. We need to put a fence around our backyard and we need a new roof. Something’s gotta go. Seems like we’re due for a market crash anyway so I should probably sell now anyway while the used car market is still up.

Well, that sucks. If so, hopefully you'll be in a position to enjoy the next fun toy soon

 

[ChristianPatriot]

Well, that sucks. If so, hopefully you'll be in a position to enjoy the next fun toy

I’m sure I’ll be back in the game a couple years from now.

But for now, my kiddos need a safer back yard and a puppy.

 

[Jaybird1980]

I’m sure I’ll be back in the game a couple years from now.

But for now, my kiddos need a safer back yard and a puppy.

Responsibilities always need to be taken care of.

Hopefully the fun toys come around again. It does seem like a good time to sell with current prices.

 

[Bigtanker]

Cletus and cars Indy. May 14-15. Tickets on sale now.

Just bought ours.

 

[klausm]

seemed right for a Sunday morning