G'Day People,
Don't mean to Add to this Gentleman's Woes AND I Ain't No Expert.
But One Thing I do Know is, as Mentioned, If You are Going to Rebuild Your Own Trans, or Even Just Fit the Trans to the Vehicle, Make Sure the Converter is Properly Seated. If It's Not, Then the Very First Turn of the Key It Will Tear the Guts Out of the Pump AND You Start All Over Again.
I Can Remember Many Years Ago When I was in the Wrecking Game how many times I had to advise Customers they had No Warranty Simply because they had used
their Old Torque Converter in My S/H Transmission. (Too Lazy to Pull the Old one off the Motor.) We Always Supplied Trans & Converter Together.
If Your Trans is Blown it Most Likely has Filled the T/C with Shrapnel. You Bolt another Trans up & the Moment you Start it Up, You Fill the New Trans with All the Crap.
Another Trick was with Ford Owners. In the Land of OZ Ford used Borg Warner Autos behind the 6 Cyl Cars for a Lot of Years. I Remember One Fellow Complaining
about a S/H Trans not Working Properly. When we checked it out He hadn't Connected the Kick Down Cable. Absolutely Essential with a B/Warner as You only had to Drive a few Miles to Stuff the Trans Completely.
Another Sad Case I can Remember was a Customer buying a Ford 351 Cleveland Engine from us. Took it Home & Fitted it.
Bought the Exchange Motor back a Few Days Later and Mentioned that the Vehicle was Still Blowing Smoke.
We suggested He Drive it for Another Week or So as the Exhaust System was More than Likely Still Full of Oil if his Old Engine was as Bad as he had Described.
Week later he came to see us still with Problem.
Told Him to Leave the Car with us, A Couple of Hours Later Our Mechanic Tells us There's Nothing Wrong with the Motor the C4 Trans has a Blown Modulator Valve.
Apparently When this Valve Fails it Allows Auto Trans Fluid to be Sucked into the Carburettor.
The Customer had Never Mentioned that the Smoke the Car was Blowing was White NOT Blue.
The Poor Bloke had Gone to all the Work & Expense of replacing his Motor when all that needed doing was to Replace the Modulator, a Relatively Simple & Inexpensive Job.
O.K. Fellas I'm sure Most of You on this Forum have come to Realise I Like to Waffle, However the Point I'm Trying to get across is that if you Don't REALLY Know What you're Doing,
THIS IS THE PLACE TO ASK!
I Love Coming Here, I'm an OLD GEEZER But I Learn Something New Just about Every time I Tune In.
This Forum was designed for MOPAR Lovers to Help Each Other, That is One of It's MAIN FUNCTIONS. (Apart from Giving Each Other Cheek, Of Course. LOL)
One Last Piece of Advice.
We All Like to Save Money,(It has been known to Take Chloroform & Forceps to Get 2/- out of Me. LOL) But Sometimes Things Should Just be Left to the Experts.
Quicker, Less Aggravation & in the Long Run as Most Grandpas Know, It's So Much Easier When Things Get POOPY to be Able to Hand it Back to Some One Else to Fix.
Tony.M