After a nights sleep I discussed with Matt what my options were....and basically I had two...fix what I have or buy new.......Machine cost would be pretty high we assumed not to mention re-chroming everything if the slipped.
So I called Street and Performance...the manufacturors of the unit. I explained what was happening and the problems I had and the only solution I knew of was to take it to a machine shop and have everything milled flat.
LUCKILY the owner told me to send it all back to him and he would fix what needs fixing...SO today UPS will be taking it back...I have no idea how long it will take...hopefully not long.
So with that "Hopefully" being resolved and really waiting on the I decided to take the transmission out and get it fixed during all this wait time. Of course this was quite comical.
I went to Matts shop and he loaned me some tools that would make it easier for me. I already had a transmission jack so we are good to go.......welll maybe.
Transmission fluid does not taste good at all......Just because you drain the tranny doesn't mean it is empty so when I loosened the cooler lines ...you guessed it I got a mouth full.
It ain't funny.
Havint not pulled a transmission for some 20 years I had forgotten some things but after a while I had everything loose and slowly started lowering the tranny......Woooo it's out........Now the problem is how do I get it out from under the truck.
Seems the tranny jack is a little high and wouldn't let it go low enough to get it out from under the truck while on the jack......I tried jacking the truck up but the jack stands we already at the highest point. I guess I could have stacked wood under the jack stands and raised it that way but that didn't really seem like a good idea to me, especially since I was all by myself.
So I did the next best thing....I took a BFH.....NO Not really
I slowly slid the tranny off the jack onto the floor and I had enough room to slide it from under the truck......My poor new garage floor.
Finally I got it out, loaded on the truck and took it to the shop.
Once there they did a quick tear down to see what the problem was and as suspected the 3/4 clutches were toast......It did appear that the unit had been recently rebuilt so I guess idiot didn't lie about that but the unit was not a TCI Streetfighter 600........This 700R4 was originally a tranny for a V-6 S-10 and when they built it they went back completly stock and with upwards of 500 hp it just aint gonna work...keep in mind that we have yet to make the truck run correctly but on our little initital test drive I guess it fried it, or the 6 miles that idiot put on it....either way it would have never held up.
So they are going to put some hardened stuff in the internal parts, use some heavy duty clutches, change the 165hp servo to a more appropriate one, use a heavy duty band and upgrade all the little things they know how to do to make it last under the current HP load........Luckily I got to see a 700R4 they built in action. It has been built for 8 years, has 650 hp behind it and they dog the piss out of the car...so if it will last in that I am sure mine will be fine.
So now the wait game happens...waiting on the tranny to be built and waiting on Street and Performance to do their thing.......hopefully once I get it all back and installed we won't have ANY more issues
We shouldn't.....the only thing we haven't took apart is the motor and rear end and we just might look at the rear end while we are waiting...but it didn't have any whining....just have to see what Matt says.