With successfully getting the engine and trans out Ive started work on tearing down the transmission to rebuild it. I had hoped to have it completely tore down last night, but I tend to be a bit anal about organizing and labeling things, so that took more time than I wanted. But at least I know where all the bolts and connectors go. I guess for about two and a half hours worth of work I didnt do too bad.
You know, I have to say, Im kinda impressed with the job the filter did. I mean, with all the metal I found in the pan, to say nothing of in the filter itself, I have found not one piece in the transmission itself, including the torque converter. I expected to find more metal in the valve body and channel plate but have found nothing. So had it not been for the damage to the ring gear I could have literally installed a new differential and been back on the road. But what fun would that have been?
Here is a shot with the side cover taken off
Reverse Servo removed (That sucker is a bit scary with the spring pressure on it)
Forward Manual Servo Removed (engages the forward band)
The great thing about putting the transmission on a engine stand is that I can rotate it around about 270* or so. More than enough to make it fairly easy to work on. The only thing I cant do is turn it so that the differential is pointing to the ground, which may become a factor on the re-assembly part.
Here is the bottom (pan side) of the transmission with the 1-2 and 2-3 shift accumulator and the forward apply accumulator
Shift and forward accumulators removed
Here is the valve body, behind it is the channel plate, behind that is the drive chain. I was hoping to get to at least the chain last night, but labeling each of those bolts (according to the manual they are grouped together, so I kept them that way) too quite a bit of time. Additionally the two bolts around the pump shaft are torx bits and were an odd size that in all the sets I had in the garage, none would fit so I had to go out to the storage shed and dig up an old 10+ year old set that I picked up on clearance and it fortunately had one that worked.
Valve Body Removed, Looking at the channel plate
Close up view of the channel plate. If you look close, you'll see a couple of the check balls
Im not going to be personally rebuilding the valve body, Id rather not take the chance of doing all this only to have it thwarted by me doing something wrong with the valve body. So once I get it completely disassembled I'll have it cryo treated and send it with the channel plate off for rebuild. There are several updates that need to be applied to the valve body that require tools that are outrageous in price and beyond what Id want to pay for a personal rebuild. So I'll send those off to Trannyman and let him work his genius on them
Stay tuned, I got more pictures from tonights work but I havent finished processing the images yet
