Thread: Looking for Trans Rebuild Info

That kit will give you the "soft" parts so to say for a rebuild and is a good quality kit at a reasonable price. That kit does not include ANY hardparts such as gear train, drums, sprockets, chains, shafts, bushings, bearings and those are things that will need inspected once it is apart to determine the need for replacement. You also need to replace the 4th clutch shaft with a hardened one. There are a lot of great converter companies out there, and there are also bad ones. I have used a number of different ones and here are a few to help your search.... Precision-I currently use these, CVC, Dacco, ATC, ACT and there are a few others I have used over the years but any of those are good quality converters. Again there are many more out there but I cant speak for them, well I know a few bad companies but I will leave that out. I would stay away from a Napa or Autozone converter if they would even sell one and go straight to a trans shop or I could sell you one if that helps out.

The hardened 4th clutch shaft should be mandatory regardless of what the old one looks like, it WILL go bad at some point which leaves you with no 4th gear. The other hardparts all need to be inspected before replacement as there is no sense in wasting money on parts you dont need. As far as the converter you should replace it with the same code that is on the original converter unless you want a higher stall speed. They dont rate stock converters as you would expect, or like what aftermarket companies advertise them to be. Mix N Matching original torque converters is trial and error unless you know of one that will give you a desired stall speed but I always replace them with the exact same code unless you want a higher stall speed and every car will respond different so it is hard to say an exact number.