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Cruiser Clint

Cruiser Clint

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Ron and I went down to Carl's shop today with my 40 on the trailer to get started on my tranny upgrade. I am buying an Art Carr full manual reverse valve body that will get dropped into my soon to be rebuilt 700R4. There weren't any issues yet, but it's a stock tranny with unknown mileage that I was worried might develop issues at the worst possible time (PYS II).

The first thing I looked into was the leak that has been fairly steady since PYS to see where it was coming from. I had suspected that the pan might be leaking since I use RTV rather than a gasket. Turned out that all four bolts holding the AA adapter to the tranny were missing! Good thing that everything was such a tight fit or it could have been ugly. Two of the tranny holes will need to be heli-coiled since the threads a fairly thrashed. At first I wondered if I forgot to tighten the bolts initially, but ultimately I decided it was Ron's fault. He wasn't there when I did the install, but it just feels right! :D

I then proceeded in the dismantling and found that my slightly bent front driveshaft had a seriously bad U joint that had grenaded an end cap. When I moved to the rear driveshaft I found that the slip cover for the spline was so trashed that it looked like it couldn't compress properly. Coupled with that was a rear pinion flange seal that is destroyed.

Despite all of the carnage everything came out pretty easy and I probably got off lucky all things considered. One of Carl's guys is going to start working on the tranny this week, so it shouldn't be long before the 40 is back on the road.
 
Cruiser Clint said:
Ron and I went down to Carl's shop today with my 40 on the trailer to get started on my tranny upgrade. I am buying an Art Carr full manual reverse valve body that will get dropped into my soon to be rebuilt 700R4. There weren't any issues yet, but it's a stock tranny with unknown mileage that I was worried might develop issues at the worst possible time (PYS II).

The first thing I looked into was the leak that has been fairly steady since PYS to see where it was coming from. I had suspected that the pan might be leaking since I use RTV rather than a gasket. Turned out that all four bolts holding the AA adapter to the tranny were missing! Good thing that everything was such a tight fit or it could have been ugly. Two of the tranny holes will need to be heli-coiled since the threads a fairly thrashed. At first I wondered if I forgot to tighten the bolts initially, but ultimately I decided it was Ron's fault. He wasn't there when I did the install, but it just feels right! :D

I then proceeded in the dismantling and found that my slightly bent front driveshaft had a seriously bad U joint that had grenaded an end cap. When I moved to the rear driveshaft I found that the slip cover for the spline was so trashed that it looked like it couldn't compress properly. Coupled with that was a rear pinion flange seal that is destroyed.

Despite all of the carnage everything came out pretty easy and I probably got off lucky all things considered. One of Carl's guys is going to start working on the tranny this week, so it shouldn't be long before the 40 is back on the road.
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s***...sounds like my list of to-do's after one weekend. And todds list of to-do's after he backs off the trailer. Thats prolly not a good thing though. I blame Ron too.

I lost some bolts on my IW adapter and the rest were loose....that made some interesting noises, and leaked a ton of fluid for a few months til I found it.
 
Note to self.....check bolts in tranny & t-case adapters...

s*** Commander, maybe you oughta clean & check that rig more than twice a year.
 
Really, what was I thinking???
 
I can always count on your support Gumby



I think
 
As far as you know you can always count on me, Tony.

I checked my T-case adapter bolts because mine has been leaking there too. three out of the four I can reach are pulled out of the threads. I gotta drop the whole thing and heli-coil the 203. fawkin cast iron. :mad:
 
All this wrenching you guys are doing is making me tired. I think I'm gonna take a nap.

Actually the only thing I have to do is bolt in the anti-wrap and weld the shackle hanger to the cross member. I just hate rolling around on a cold garage floor. I already did my sliders, chunk and oil leak. Oh and whoever said bolting the sliders is better, needs to have their bald head examined. That was the biggest pain in the balls I've had to go through.
 
Im wrenching a ton right now...on my new CAR.
 
ol datsun
 
Tranny and xfer are back in and bolted up. I heli-coiled the tailshaft bolts holes, used good lock tite and torqued the hell out of them. That part of the upgrade has gone surprising easy.

At PYS last year Tony pointed out the beginning of some frame fatigue by my passenger front spring hanger. That has turned into a pretty good sized hairline crack which I will fix tomorrow! It's really not that bad yet, but I don't think it would last through another PYS tour with all of the twisting etc. Toyota boxed the other side of the frame, but the passenger side is just a C-channel. I remember my first GSMTR where a guy lost the spring hanger on his rear passenger side which resulted in the axle walking out form underneath the truck. I am very glad to avoid that!

Lesson for all is to inspect at least semi-annually for issues big and small because you just never know. The wheeling that we do now a days puts a lot of stress on parts that while overbuilt originally were never really designed for what we are doing.
 
Cruiser Clint said:
Lesson for all is to inspect at least semi-annually for issues big and small because you just never know. The wheeling that we do now a days puts a lot of stress on parts that while overbuilt originally were never really designed for what we are doing.
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I hear ya!
 
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