A Fabricobbler's Guide to the Turbo Buick Galaxy- Cutlass Rehash
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Agree with Mike. The billet hard parts in these won’t break if you have line pressure. The wear items are the clutches.
I have an extra billet input shaft and Sun gear from CK that we’ve been holding onto for years. We acquired them in a strange turn of events. If your interested, then let me kno ow and I’ll check with my son to see if he wants to sell them.
You’re pain is describing all of the reasons I’ve been gathering parts for the past 2 months.
I have an extra billet input shaft and Sun gear from CK that we’ve been holding onto for years. We acquired them in a strange turn of events. If your interested, then let me kno ow and I’ll check with my son to see if he wants to sell them.
You’re pain is describing all of the reasons I’ve been gathering parts for the past 2 months.
I am probably Ok without that stuff. Thanks for the offer. Trying to keep the power lowish on this one 😉
Pulled the low/reverse clutch and planet out today. I've got a bare case.
Only bad news is I pulled an OD planetary planet gear out when I was trying to learn how to disassemble everything and all the needles fell into the carrier. When I went to put it back together I found I was missing a needle roller. Found one, put it in, and was still missing one. I can probably find a replacement but what worries me is where did it go. It has to be on the table or inside the OD sprag but I can't find it. Kinda stressful. Shouldn't have taken it apart as it didn't need to....
Saw a little heat spotting on the direct and forward clutches but the actual frictions looked good.
OD clutches also had a little heat spotting. Low/reverse looked spotless.
Good news-
I took the rest of the OD planet pinions out and found my missing needle roller. Hooray! It must have fallen in a groove and got stuck. I shook it and it fell out. Big relief.
Bad news-
Called CK and they still don't have the servo or hobbed shaft direct drum.
My phone also hit the planned obsolescence window a few weeks after it turned 4 years old (and failed in the identical way and time a friends phone of the same model did) so I had to dump money I didn't want to on a new(er) one. Bah Humbug.
I'm just going to order the kit from CK after the new year and get as much installed as a I can and play the dangerous game of waiting for the drum.
In the mean time I can work on about 20 other things but I am slightly un-motivated to crack into more than one main project at a time.
I took the rest of the OD planet pinions out and found my missing needle roller. Hooray! It must have fallen in a groove and got stuck. I shook it and it fell out. Big relief.
Bad news-
Called CK and they still don't have the servo or hobbed shaft direct drum.
My phone also hit the planned obsolescence window a few weeks after it turned 4 years old (and failed in the identical way and time a friends phone of the same model did) so I had to dump money I didn't want to on a new(er) one. Bah Humbug.
I'm just going to order the kit from CK after the new year and get as much installed as a I can and play the dangerous game of waiting for the drum.
In the mean time I can work on about 20 other things but I am slightly un-motivated to crack into more than one main project at a time.
liquidh8
Comic Book Super Hero
When I built mine I used mostly parts from CK, his manual, the OEM manual and the other. I agree, his parts seemed the better priced. I ended up taking forever as i had to source all the shims and even get a few made, to tighen up the tolerances.
Does the CK book provide much benefit if I have the ATSG manual and have experience with industrial transmissions?
I have most of the clearance specs from a topic on the old GN-Ttype website. Just not sure what the content of the CK book is, if its for people who have never looked at drivetrain stuff, a replacement for the ATSG manual, or if its tailored for modifications for performance.
liquidh8
Comic Book Super Hero
Not sure how I missed this thread, but it was fun to read from the beginning. Kind of motivates me to make threads for my Monte's to re-cap and build from, if nothing else to help me remember what the H I did years ago, as I get older it becomes fuzzier.
Well I did get the CKperf manual from Jim and it's stellar. All the fluid circuit diagrams, logic diagrams and tolerances that I need & want!
I've still been dragging my feet on ordering parts. I keep seeing complaints on CK being sluggish to ship stuff (they are just overloaded plus have issues with stocking stuff I'm sure) but I don't like people sitting on my money for weeks or months but it's the game we play in and I just gotta pony up. Bleh.
Lost most of December to wrapping up my Master's Thesis, was gone for a week and a half on vacation in December/January, got home and ended up sick a day after with the 'rona (must have picked it up on the plane on the way back home from Arizona), thankfully it was a moderate head cold and unless work made me test to go back after getting symptoms I wouldn't have known/cared to check it was the 'rona. Plus it's been brutally cold and heating the garage for a few hours after work when it's been soaking at -20 to 0F for a week is an expensive and time consuming matter.
On top of that Nov-Feb is my big scale model build & sell time so I've been working on that.
So
Master's Thesis + Vacation + Sick + Cold +Supplier Selection Paralysis + Trying to generate car mod capital = No Car progress
Dad always says that January is the worst month to try and get anything done. February/March are a lot more productive.
Maybe this weekend I'll start something. Wife also has the sniffles version of the Rona a few days lagging from me so maybe this weekend she will still be in the 'lounge on the couch' mood and I'll be able to get some garage stuff done. If she is better I'll be a bathroom remodeling servant with her so
I've got 90% of the parts to build my 8.5 rear axle so I should get that started. I've got the stock zr2 width (+4") posi 3.73 30 spline disk unit that was in my 2+2 a few years back. I have new moser 30 spline G body width axles on hand so I just need to cut the axle tubes down, weld on new ends and buy some 2wd rotors and scrap the 4wd rotors I got.
MUST FIND MOTIVATION.
I've still been dragging my feet on ordering parts. I keep seeing complaints on CK being sluggish to ship stuff (they are just overloaded plus have issues with stocking stuff I'm sure) but I don't like people sitting on my money for weeks or months but it's the game we play in and I just gotta pony up. Bleh.
Lost most of December to wrapping up my Master's Thesis, was gone for a week and a half on vacation in December/January, got home and ended up sick a day after with the 'rona (must have picked it up on the plane on the way back home from Arizona), thankfully it was a moderate head cold and unless work made me test to go back after getting symptoms I wouldn't have known/cared to check it was the 'rona. Plus it's been brutally cold and heating the garage for a few hours after work when it's been soaking at -20 to 0F for a week is an expensive and time consuming matter.
On top of that Nov-Feb is my big scale model build & sell time so I've been working on that.
So
Master's Thesis + Vacation + Sick + Cold +Supplier Selection Paralysis + Trying to generate car mod capital = No Car progress
Dad always says that January is the worst month to try and get anything done. February/March are a lot more productive.
Maybe this weekend I'll start something. Wife also has the sniffles version of the Rona a few days lagging from me so maybe this weekend she will still be in the 'lounge on the couch' mood and I'll be able to get some garage stuff done. If she is better I'll be a bathroom remodeling servant with her so
I've got 90% of the parts to build my 8.5 rear axle so I should get that started. I've got the stock zr2 width (+4") posi 3.73 30 spline disk unit that was in my 2+2 a few years back. I have new moser 30 spline G body width axles on hand so I just need to cut the axle tubes down, weld on new ends and buy some 2wd rotors and scrap the 4wd rotors I got.
MUST FIND MOTIVATION.
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