skylark
I'm Awesome
Normally i'm 100% for doing everything properly. There are rare times where I will shortcut something. I'm seriously considering this being one of those times.
We bought a 95 K2500 with the 4L60E and I'm 90% certain that the 2-4 band is broken and not worn out. The fluid is bright red and it doesn't smell burned. It doesn't slip in any of the other gears. Based upon everything that I have found and talking to a friend of mine that used to own a transmission shop, I don't believe that there is anything else wrong with it. For a little while I did R&R in a tranny shop and I have torn many of these apart but never built one.
I really don't want to put a lot of money into this thing because I don't plan to keep it that long. Used trannys are a of the dice at best. I've had prices between $2600-3800 for a "stock" bench build. I'm too much of a cheap bastar..., uh frugal man for that.
I'm seriously considering buying a master kit, corvette servo and assembly grease from Oregon Performance Transmission and installing everything that I can without special tools. This is 90+% because I have bearing and seal drivers. I see no reason to not reuse my converter, it still locks as it should. There are many upgrades that I could do but realistically it made it 185k and I don't want to spend money on it. OPT will run $235 plus shipping for the parts. I'm looking at about $80 in fluid plus some brake clean ought to put me in the $350 range for a functioning tranny.
We bought a 95 K2500 with the 4L60E and I'm 90% certain that the 2-4 band is broken and not worn out. The fluid is bright red and it doesn't smell burned. It doesn't slip in any of the other gears. Based upon everything that I have found and talking to a friend of mine that used to own a transmission shop, I don't believe that there is anything else wrong with it. For a little while I did R&R in a tranny shop and I have torn many of these apart but never built one.
I really don't want to put a lot of money into this thing because I don't plan to keep it that long. Used trannys are a of the dice at best. I've had prices between $2600-3800 for a "stock" bench build. I'm too much of a cheap bastar..., uh frugal man for that.
I'm seriously considering buying a master kit, corvette servo and assembly grease from Oregon Performance Transmission and installing everything that I can without special tools. This is 90+% because I have bearing and seal drivers. I see no reason to not reuse my converter, it still locks as it should. There are many upgrades that I could do but realistically it made it 185k and I don't want to spend money on it. OPT will run $235 plus shipping for the parts. I'm looking at about $80 in fluid plus some brake clean ought to put me in the $350 range for a functioning tranny.