A Fabricobbler's Guide to the Turbo Buick Galaxy- Cutlass Rehash

[81cutlass]

Burned 3 cans of brakeclean to clean the oil sand grime off the case and started soaking the clutch friction materials.

My pie in the sky goal is to have at least up to the OD planet assembled by Friday.

 

[liquidh8]

that sucks! I was very careful when I did mine, it was a pain in the @$$ to get centered and strait.

 

[81cutlass]

Medium wins!

Got up to the back half of the direct drum assembled tonight. It's the back half but maybe only 25% of the parts since theres only one clutch set up to this point and there's 4 to go

Everything going in the drip tray is replaced parts.

 

[81cutlass]

If you like to hear me ramble instead of reading my posts you can do that too!

 

[81cutlass]

Bouncing back and forth!

Went 1 step forward and 2 steps back yesterday evening. Got the input shaft and OD planet and overrun clutch assembled.

Tried getting the servo set up and couldn't get things aligned. So I yanked all the top half out, the center support down to the rear half of the intermediate drum.

Got my poop in a group tonight and got the sonnax servo set up finally and worked back up. Just waiting on the OD piston and I can probably get everything from there forward installed.



Also, more tube videos. I've been editing them while feeding or holding the baby so hence the increase in 'tube vidjayos

 

[81cutlass]

Buttoned up 4th gear Saturday morning and got there pump mostly done tonight.

Air checked everything but the 2nd gear servo and everything seems to work.

I've got 1 spring I don't know where it goes and once I figure that out I can button the pump up and start in the valve body install.

 

[81cutlass]

About a week late from what I wanted, but it's done (ish)!

Wrapped up and installed the pump and set front endplay

Installed the valve body, accumulators, governor and LU solenoid/wiring

And dropped the pan on! Look at that CLEAN workbench! Hot dang!

I still need to put in a filter, swap the speedometer gears and obviously pull the pan for that. I don't want to put the trans in filled with fluid and since I am planning on steeling the speedometer gears from the 2004r that's in my cutlass now, I don't plan/need to fully wrap the pan up until I get to installing the trans.

So here's hoping it works!

 

[81cutlass]

Watch my vid-jay-ohs if you are bored

 

[81cutlass]

Cutlass is back home.

Put the 2+2 roller in storage for winter and brought this back home to do some projects. Only took 8 hours of driving...

Things I've got planned
Install rebuilt trans
Install 8.5 rear
Install blazer rear sway bar
Retrobright headlights
Probably swap to a tunable ECU
Get trans line pressure, afr and fuel pressure inputs into the ecu
Maybe turbo and intercooler fab

Not how I wanted to haul the car home but I had an opening, had the trailer and got it done.

Washed the 18 months of mouse smell off the paint and vacuumed the acorns and mouse nests out of the cowl Sunday.

It's still marginally on to drive the car this week so I think I'll wait until after Thanksgiving to crack onto anything.

 

[liquidh8]

Any final decisions on what tunable ECU?