Burbdate: April 14, 2013...
After a year of driving around with only first, second, and reverse I finally found the time and money to make some much needed tranny repairs. Since my last update we bought a house, moved, and got my '85 SWB moved into its new home in the third bay of my garage. We finally got all the boxes and moving crap out of the main bay, which allowed me to pull the Burb in and get to work:
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Tranny was out in about two hours, then loaded into the back of my temporary transportation until I can deliver it to the builder on Monday:
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I had originally wanted to build it myself, but a 4L60E is a far more complex beast than I gave it credit for. Being my daily, I wanted it done right the first time, so figured I would get a competent builder to handle the task.
I said before that I wanted to beef up the 60E to handle the LQ4 that I want to put in front of it, and I chose my parts with that in mind. I went with a TruTech Ultimate Towing kit for the rebuild, which uses Raybestos Blue Plate and GPZ105 clutches, along with Kolene steels in the direct drum. I bought a new ACDelco reverse/input drum to accommodate the wider band in the kit, and a Beast reaction shell to replace the failure prone stocker. I had considered the ACD 5 pinion planetary kit, but decided that was too much money for the benefits i would see at my power level:
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To top it off I bought a mild 2200 - 2600 stall converter from RevMax. Have several friends and acquaintances running them to good effect in 10 and 11 second cars, so I figured that they would be a good choice over a stock unit:
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I'll also be pulling and exchanging my radiator for a new one (under warranty) so as to have a clean tranny cooler. I'm replacing the stock auxiliary cooler with either a Hayden or Derale unit, but haven't decided which. I found my tranny mount to be in less than great shape, so I may go with a urethane replacement. All in all, a good week for the old girl.