JollyGreen
Metalworking Madman
I decided last night that I would swap out transmissions today. Got a buddy to help me (who was supposed to know more about this $hit than I do). Didn't get started till almost 10 since his worthless a$$ didn't get out of bed. Get both driveshafts out no problem, disconnect the linkage and electrical. Then the cross members comes out. I then get told that we should start to pull the housing bolts out. I said, we should probably take the t-case off because we won't have enough room behind us to pull the tranny all the way out. "Oh, we'll have plenty of room", says my buddy. Ok, I said. Get the bolts out, including the 2 on top of the housing (thank you GM engineers, fu*kers!). Then HE realized that in the middle of pulling it out that we had to take the t-case out.
J8sus H...
Get that off and pull the transmission out and someone else at the shop needs to use what is the only tranny jack in the whole place that works. So while they're using it I swapped out all the seals. The t-case output seal was especially great because it wouldn't go in. I mean we tried everything but it WOULD NOT go in. By this time it's 3 and I know we won't get the damn thing put back together before they close at 5, so I told my buddy that we just need to get the transmission installed and I can finish it up tomorrow. Once again I should have listened to myself. He wanted to bolt the convertor onto the flywheel first, instead of sliding it onto the input shaft of the tranny. So after doing that and raising it up to bolt it up, we see that the gap on the bellhousing is too big and the convertor isn't all the way on shaft. I dropped the tranny and said we're stopping for the day. They aren't open tomorrow so I'll have to take at least a full day from work to get it put back together myself. FML.
Sorry for the rant. I just get pissed when my friends, who are supposed to have done this many of times end up costing me hours that I didn't have to begin.
J8sus H...
Get that off and pull the transmission out and someone else at the shop needs to use what is the only tranny jack in the whole place that works. So while they're using it I swapped out all the seals. The t-case output seal was especially great because it wouldn't go in. I mean we tried everything but it WOULD NOT go in. By this time it's 3 and I know we won't get the damn thing put back together before they close at 5, so I told my buddy that we just need to get the transmission installed and I can finish it up tomorrow. Once again I should have listened to myself. He wanted to bolt the convertor onto the flywheel first, instead of sliding it onto the input shaft of the tranny. So after doing that and raising it up to bolt it up, we see that the gap on the bellhousing is too big and the convertor isn't all the way on shaft. I dropped the tranny and said we're stopping for the day. They aren't open tomorrow so I'll have to take at least a full day from work to get it put back together myself. FML.
Sorry for the rant. I just get pissed when my friends, who are supposed to have done this many of times end up costing me hours that I didn't have to begin.
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