This is the spring retainer installed - guess I didn’t take any photos of compressing the spring or installing the one way clutch or its race.
I cleaned the output shaft, and disassembled and cleaned the governor. Then torqued the governor cover to specs.
I installed new iron seal rings on the governor, and installed the parking pawl, rear governor housing, and the shaft through the case with new bushings of course, torqueing the governor housing to the case per specs. This allowed me to install the rear planetary outer shell and its snap ring.
A big moment came when I was able to install the other two clutch / planetary assemblies. Everything slid together as it should! For the time being I assembled the intermediate band and tightened the adjustment enough to center the assembly in the transmission and hold it in to the rear planetary / clutch assembly.
New seals and a new bushing are installed on the front pump, which was disassembled and cleaned previously. New cast iron seal rings are installed. I cleaned all the bolts, and found this one that looked like it was about to snap off. I replaced it with a new bolt and torqued the assembly in place.
I disassembled and cleaned and rebuilt the valve body a couple weeks ago, with a new gasket of course. The bolts were run down with a speed handle after I was happy with the gear selector and the kickdown action. Then it was torqued to specs.
The tailshaft was installed with a new gasket and torqued to specs. I adjusted the intermediate band and torqued the seal nut. Then the new pan gasket was positioned. The pan bolts were all started and run down with a speed handle. Then the pan was torqued to specs.
Two big milestones today - the transmission is done, and the car is sitting on the ground for the first time since May 2017. Weather permitting I am going to push the car outside, turn it around, and install the transmission for what I hope is the final time.
Nice work on the transmission, and very informative. Nice catch on that bolt too. Your cat looks good sitting on the ground, I’m sure you’ll be driving it soon.
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Wow! Kudos for tackling the transmission rebuild. That’s all voodoo magic to me.
Helps if you are an aircraft engineer
Shame to put oil in it
Fingers crossed that it all works right - first time for me.
Looks like a nice end result Royce, unfortunately the relief won’t come until you test it out. One good thing about rebuilding a transmission. As soon as you mis-assembly one part the rest of the parts won’t go together. So, if the parts aren’t fitting together correctly you know right away that something isn’t right. At the end if the pump doesn’t drop in and seat correctly you better start over. The rebuild kits are pretty nice now and lay the replacement parts out in sub assemblies which makes the process easier.
I just did the trans and 2 speed gear box on our 4x4 tractor over xmas break. 12 bearings 8 seals and three spindled shafts later I think I have the bad vibrations fixed. Bad input shaft bearing started it all and failed other components.
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Wow you have a big thing there Brian!
Today I pushed the car out of the garage into the driveway for the first time in 8 months so I could turn it around. With the help of the floor jack it rotated 180 degrees and went back in the garage.
Any thoughts about dropping in the engine first?