Well I have a feeling my C4 will be coming out this week. AFter a long hot drive home on Wed. I shut off the Mav to move my durango. Fired up the mav and backed it up the driveway. put it in drive to move forward and no drive,2 or1. I had to give it a shot of gas to get forward gears. I had a feeling I would have to reseal it at some point so no big surprise. Its had a cold start delay into drive since I got it. Trans only has a few thousand miles on it but only moved about 1200 miles in 12 years. The 8 years prior to me buying it was mainly sitting in a garage. So once again no big surprise I guess. The trans has always shifted real nice so I will be fixing this one since I know it works fine. Cleared it with my boss to let me pull it this week at work. So now I just have to find time to tear it down,inspect and freshen it up. Been about 20 years since I did a C4 but I'm sure it will come back to me. I hope.LOL. Have a nice 3500 stall in the garage. Should I install it?? Not sure. I'll drop the pan first and have a look at the filter and valve body but I'm pretty sure it will be coming out. Reverse still worked normally. Think I'm on the right track with it being a front clutch issue??
I'd be happy to help Dave but unfortunately I only do my own. Then if they blow up its my problem. I just dont trust tranny work. One of the reasons I turned down that position at work years ago. Its so easy to make a mistake or have a part fail and have to pull that nice fresh rebuild back out. It makes me nuts when something like that goes wrong. Plus the fact I hate the smell of our +4 fluid at work. Its awful!!! Tranny guys are a different breed. Hats off to them but I think they may all be a bit nutty.LOL.
i made real good friends with one of the best transmissions guys in my town he will completely rebuild trannies for me for $250 and under. and lets me watch it as he builds it and can have it done in about 30 minutes.
Auto trannies are the only thing I've never tried my hand at. I've built engines, set up ring and pinions, even helped rebuild a 10 speed truck tranny, but I've never been brave enough to stick my nose into an automatic. Good luck with it, you've got more balls than I do to try it!
I build a couple tranny's a year, most of the time it's soft parts (clutches and seals). Rear axles however are some kind of voodoo mumbo jumbo.
I'm kind of the opposite. Dont mind doing automatics and diffs but manuals I dont like. Wont do any of them at work though. "Not my department" luckily. I certainly wouldnt want one of those 30min rebuilds in my car!!!
I had your very same thought on this until I gave it a shot. The first one I did I just took my time on and every thing went fine. I even towed a 22 foot travel trailer through the mountains and it stayed together. Done three so far with the third in my garage waiting to go into my dad's truck.
