Best way to clean a tranny?

I have a few trannies I want to put on the 'bay, but before I do, I was wondering what's the best way to clean the grease off the outside?

I have a big cabinet washer I can put them in...

What I have are 2 Hydramatics, a Slim Jim, and 3 ford manuals.. Am I right in thinking that if the Hydros and the Slim Jim have the yokes in and the convertors in (or fluid cupplings as my ****** manual calls them) they'll be safe from the water??

How would you seal up the manuals (two are 50's-60's ford 3spds, the other is a 5spd out of a newer f-350)


Thanks!

 

good wire brushing does wonders

 

What's a wire brush?....

I figured I would probably end up using degreaser and a wire brush, but if there was a way I could stick 'em in the cabinet for an hour and forget about 'em it would be even better...

 

Why is it that I think of RuPaul in a bathtub every time I see the ***le of this thread?


I think I need help.

 

i wouldnt. the moisture will cause rust to form. get some degreaser and a brush. no easy way.

 

Think???

 

Castrol Super Clean, small wire brush (you can get one from Home Depot, get the one used for welding. It's small and br***) keep it wet and it'll clean it.

Steve

 

Personally I'd save the trouble and just s**** the slim-jim, unless it's a known good trans fresh out of a car you can guarantee the buyer will work. I had one listed on there for about 18 months with a motor and no one ever asked to buy just the trans -

Degreaser and a combo of cup and flat wire brushes in a drill will go about the fastest, but use an old drill, wear gloves and eye protection, and so on.

 

I've got a ton of wire brushes... Just trying to stay away from manual labor... The thought of it scares me... Not as much as RuPaul in the tub, but it does scare me...

 

why not just pressure wash them?if they have the converts and yokes, that is what i would do.

 

That's what I was thinking about that Slim Jim... It probably will end up in the s****.... I can't guarantee any of 'em except for the trans out of F350, know of the others ran... I know a hydro has to be worth somethin', the 3spds are from trucks but they should be worth somethin' too I'd think...

 

Something like that if I could stick it in a van or in a corner somewhere and forget it, I'd post it on there in one of those "good until sold" 10 cents a month listings and let it go. The problem on stuff like that is they're a bear to ship, so a guy has to need one really bad to buy one. Even the manual transmissions I've posted have been slow to turn over.

 

Go to the grocery store and buy a couple cans of Easy Off Oven cleaner. put down some newspaper, put the transmission on the paper and give them a good coating of Oven cleaner. Let it soak in, come back 30 min. give another soaking. Take a garden hose to the and watch the grease wash off. I do lots of cruddy engines this way. The really bad ones, I throw in the back of my buddy's ****ty truck, give them a good spray and drive to the local hand car wash place.SSHHH don't say anything to them about it.

 

Some of us are wary of buying clean parts, I would leave them dirty.

 

I use gas and keroscene with a slight trace of laquer thinner,Cheaper way than that is oven cleaner and water and a stiff paintbrush.

 

Always makes me laugh - but over in the UK a ****** is absolutely NOT a car gearbox.

 

****, I'd pay s**** price for a pair of spare Hydramatics if they'll work on my '57 Pontiac...now, getting them up here from Omaha might be tough unless someone's heading to the Rust Revival or Btt50's from Omaha ...I hate to see anything get s****ped, even if it gets sold for $10 to someone that'll stick $500 into one to rebuild it...

 

Pressure wash most of the stuff off. What doesn't come off, I wouldn't worry about...

 

Another vote for Oven Cleaner.

Try the Dollar store for the off brand.

 

Oh definately the Hydros are worth saving and marketing, it's just the Slim Jim that's junk. I think in all that time I heard from one guy who was a fan of them and had worked some of the bugs out of them - but he wasn't buying either.

For what CL and the eBay good-till-sold listings cost it doesn't hurt to throw it on too, I just wouldn't hold my breath on selling it is all.

I did eventually sell the one I had, but it went with the motor because the motor was set up and I didn't want to rip the crank out of it to get the trans off it - I didn't even try to check if the converter would slide off like a TH400 or later trans will.

 

Oven cleaner rules!!!!
If you leave it on overnight it takes the paint with it
Soak em then take it to the local car wash and blast it with the high pressure.........but have some primer ready, it will start to rust my the time you get home.

 

Where in minnesota are ya?? We go to the tractor swap meet in Le Seuer every year, if your anywhere close to there... It's towards the end of april...

 

I didn't have to take the crank or anything out of my 394 to get the slim jim off, just a few bolts... I don't remember much about the whole process so it must not have been a big deal...