hi peoples, i wont be using a tranny ive got for some time... was wondering whats a good way to keep it in good shape. many thanks.
If you're me, you just plop it on a shelf in the extra bedroom and put up with the ol'lady whining about it. If you put it in a place where there's daily temp variation, it can collect condensation and possibly rust inside. At least, that's what I tell the ol' lady...hee hee.
make sure you have sealed it up with plugs like in ROcky's pic if it's a AT then take off the dipstick tuke and plug that too.
[ QUOTE ] by letting me use it till your ready. [/ QUOTE ] HAHA ....DIFFERENT TRANNY HOMEBOY!! how did the bank go with the "GAY SEX" cashin? thanks for the info fellers rocky - luckily iam single... the apartment is full of car parts
Or...if it's a TH-350, just drag it out back o' the garage and leave it sit outside all winter. Drag it back around to the driveway and install it in the spring...worked fine for me! (Now, if it's a Tourqueflite...get at least three guys wearing those biohazard suits to carefully carry it like a case of nitro glycerine into a temperature and humidity controlled "clean room" and seal it in a sterile plastic container under lock and key. Pull it carefully out when ready to use, install it with surgical precision... ...then find out it slips like a bitch and loses reverse and third gear when warm. Buy an adapter plate and go yank the TH-350 out of the mud and bolt it up. Ready to rock again!
If your luck is like mine, you'll put that trans on the garage floor and trip over it for a couple years...then you'll forget that you put up for sale your only car on various sites (people stopped calling) and surprisingly sell it the day before you were going to strip the parts car you just had given to you (bad transmission, same make, etc.). After wrenching into the night (because your stupid ass NEEDS a car, like, NOW), you find that the trans works (YAAAAYYYY), um, er, sorta. It only goes forward, in EVERY range. This actually happened to a stupid person I know (OK, it was me). The cure was simple: put car in "Park", engine running. Place foot over accelerator and press, hard. Shortly the forward clutch pack lets go and the trans operates as normal, you have a working car!! Then you discover the state finally got it's shit together, and mails you a notice to have the car tested for emissions within two months...and said car has always gone "chug" while idling...no pass-y emission...back to square one... Why is it we do this anyway??? Why is it I spent the last ten minutes typing this drivel?? Why are you still reading this?? Cosmo, still needing a life...
AHAHAhahahaha! Cosmo, I estimate your miserable life is almost parallel to about 93% of us so don't feel alone. My luck is to sell my parts transmission for $5 the day before I blow my good tranny. Then, I can only find one other tranny and the guy wants $450 for it. Bring it home to find the valve body and various parts are completely missing! Yeah, it happened....shit!
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