Trans is no gone...need help replacing (1 Viewer)

[Bama4door]

Well I spent the whole weekend enjoying the weather in the cruiser, even went out to Ouachita Saturday afternoon and everything was fine for the 80+ mile journey.


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This morning I had a bad experience on the way to work. Pulling out onto Dave Ward and going up a slight hill and the trans starts slipping bad. Tried shifting through all the gears and it didn't seem to help, or shift in and out. So I parked in in the closest parking lot and got a buddy to give me a ride to work.

So I know these A440s are stupid expensive to rebuild and a H55 swap is pretty expensive in itself. I'd rather not pay for a rebuild/manual swap that would cost as much as I bought the cruiser for.

So I was going to ask and see if any of y'all had any leads to any used a440 units that you know of. Either a take out, at a pull-a-part, or a buddy has. Don't mind driving a few hours to get it either.

Thanks for the help.

 

[liljlandon]

Before you just assume its bad, have you checked the fluid? I'd do a fluid, filter change and go from there. May be a solenoid problem as well?

 

[Bama4door]

Before you just assume its bad, have you checked the fluid? I'd do a fluid, filter change and go from there. May be a solenoid problem as well?

So I will go into detail about what happened. Yesterday I was driving around in a development and got out to lock the hubs, then put it in 4lo to crawl this hill. Got to the top of the hill fine. Stopped, unlocked hubs then shifted back into 2hi. This is when a weird high pitched squealing noise started. I got under the truck and it seemed like the noise was coming from the bell housing where it mates to the engine block (maybe torque converter related?). The noise was there regardless of it being in gear or neutral and it got louder with more revs. So I got back home and it drove fine. About 2 hours later I went to drive it around for 10 mins and the noise went away and it was fine. So this morning I start it up and the noise is back. It drives fine for the first 5 minutes, then when I'm going up this hill it starts slipping really bad.

I checked the fluid level Friday and it seemed fine. I've heard people doing a "Rodney" flush. I will check into that. Anyway I could check the solenoids? I'm guessing id have to pull the pan?

 

[liljlandon]

The noise is probably torque converter related. They are relatively cheap, -250$ range. I've had the bolts work loose and hit the block before on a Chevy. You can bench test solenoids.

 

[liljlandon]

What color is the fluid?

 

[Bama4door]

Looked red like normal. I am going to do a Rodney flush and change the filter. I'm also going take off the inspection cover and see if I can see anything weird going on around the converter

 

[YotaJosh]

I have no solid advice other than to search the heck out of the 60 Series and even the 80 Series forum.

The noise you heard was probably a hydraulic starvation whine, meaning the fluid is low, or isn't getting to the front pump for some reason (clogged filter, blocked passage, etc).

As Jayston has said, I'd start with a fluid and filter change and inspect the junk in the pan.

 

[Bama4door]

I have no solid advice other than to search the heck out of the 60 Series and even the 80 Series forum.

The noise you heard was probably a hydraulic starvation whine, meaning the fluid is low, or isn't getting to the front pump for some reason (clogged filter, blocked passage, etc).

As Jayston has said, I'd start with a fluid and filter change and inspect the junk in the pan.

Sounds good thanks for the help Josh