[elky] Re: Now I know why...

  • From: Ray Buck <rbuck@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: elky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 11:18:51 -0600

According to a guy who builds race transmissions for a living, this is about normal...at least in his world.  I'm sure there are others who'd do it for less, and I'm looking into that.  But still...yanno, I wonder how hard it would be to do it myself.  I've never dug into an automatic trans.  Something else to consider.

Btw, I shot a car show yesterday and one of the cars there was quite an oddball.  A 1967 DAF:





Count the number of wires on the distributor cap.  Yep, 3. One for the coil.  Opposed 2 cylinder.  But the kicker is its transmission.  It's called "Variomatic."  Stepless, infinitely variable ratio belt drive.  Totally wacko.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variomatic

r


On 5/19/2012 9:34 AM, STILLFRANKSFAULT@xxxxxxx wrote:
OMG that's highway robbery, 600-800 for a disassemble and reassemble with no parts. Please tell me this is a joke when you say only. 
 
Smokey Mt Frank
 
In a message dated 5/19/2012 11:06:13 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, rbuck@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
The estimate to swap guts from one case to another is only $600-800.  Cheap at half the price.  :)

r


On 5/17/2012 5:56 AM, STILLFRANKSFAULT@xxxxxxx wrote:
Well Ray, in theory, the only thing you need is a case. Why rebuild another trans. Just swap all the internals to a new case.
  Or was there more damage?
Smokey Mt Frank
 
In a message dated 5/16/2012 10:28:19 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, rbuck@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes:


Color me stupid.  I should have seen it when I pulled the pan.  But I didn't. 



I didn't lose too much time on that, tho.  I finally got the tranny out tonite:



It's real broke.

I'm starting to re-think things.  If this transmission repair is gonna be real spendy, I may put off running the car this year and see about putting a Tremec 3550 or T56 into it.  I'm not sure right now.  But I'm hurtin and tired and filthy.  (Maybe that last part is why the x-wife left, ya think?)

r


On 5/14/2012 3:16 PM, STILLFRANKSFAULT@xxxxxxx wrote:
OMG,  Your kidding right .............. how did you miss that split.  I could see if there was a crack in the case, but that's huge.
 
Smokey Mt Frank
 
In a message dated 5/14/2012 3:01:03 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, rbuck@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
...the transmission ain't workin:

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