Safe to drive with broken sunshell/sungear?

[Supercharged111]

Gotta hit those plugs with heat before tugging on them.

 

[someotherguy]

Gotta hit those plugs with heat before tugging on them.

Am I mistaken that they've melted, and it's just that the sealant used in there is kinda like glue? It's definitely tougher than the black tar crap used in the firewall connector, that's for sure!

Richard

 

[Supercharged111]

Nope, neighbor runs a trans shop and showed me. They were still sticky when warm, but not impossible like without the heat.

 

[honkon]

Heating it definitely would have helped, didn't occur to me at the time. I don't think the plugs themselves have melted or anything, it's just the gluey goop stuff in there that wouldn't let go.

 

[Supercharged111]

I would have never considered it if I weren't spoon fed that info. Probably would have unbolted it from the trans and let it hang.

 

[honkon]

Yesterday I got a new range switch, among a few other things, from PullAPart. I just cut the pigtail. It was a little tricky to get to one of the bolts with the big connector still in place though.

Transmission is 90% torn down. Sunshell is hashed, everything else looks to be in pretty good condition.

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[honkon]

Got the connector out of the new range sensor.

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Heat did the trick. Softened the glue stuff up.

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You can see the goop on the connector.

 

[Supercharged111]

Good to hear. Don't forget you'll need heat to reassemble and don't wipe the goo off either.

 

[Dr.Zoom]

Just a thought, I wonder if the whine you heard could be your fuel pump. Mine would sing after a while, but was quiet when cold.

Just in case it's still there when you're back up and running.

 

[honkon]

Just a thought, I wonder if the whine you heard could be your fuel pump. Mine would sing after a while, but was quiet when cold.

Just in case it's still there when you're back up and running.

Pretty positive it was coming from the trans. Came definitively from the trans area under the truck.
It would only be there in reverse, and would coincide with rpm. Probably a normal sound that a healthy transmission makes but isn't normally audible because the part it's coming from is only spinning and making noise when you're moving in reverse.