BUILD THREAD Poor Man's Monte Carlo

[Turbo Zach]

The last small trany I rebuilt was a c6. I used a old sheet of plywood on saw horses. I lay every thing out in order as it comes apart. I inspect the parts. When I put one back together I clean and put each part back in one at a time, so they are not laying around getting dirty. Multilofe bread pans work awesome for keeping parts in order. I like to do the same thing with a Cat transmission too. The bigger the trany the easier to rebuild in my opinion. You will get it, don't be afraid.

 

[Opie Knievel]

Awesome work!

Thanks Jared. I originally wasn't gonna paint the holding fixture and stand but I knew if I didn't Scott (Injectedcutty) would give me hell over it. Lol.

 

[Opie Knievel]

The last small trany I rebuilt was a c6. I used a old sheet of plywood on saw horses. I lay every thing out in order as it comes apart. I inspect the parts. When I put one back together I clean and put each part back in one at a time, so they are not laying around getting dirty. Multilofe bread pans work awesome for keeping parts in order. I like to do the same thing with a Cat transmission too. The bigger the trany the easier to rebuild in my opinion. You will get it, don't be afraid.

I'm using the sides from a metal shipping crate for table tops. I figured that would be better than ruining a good sheet of plywood with transmission fluid.

Overlook the disastrous mess in the garage. I'm moving soon. My new garage won't look like this! Lol

I agree with you about bigger stuff being easier to rebuild. I rebuilt an 855 Cummins a few years ago. That was one of the easiest engine rebuilds I've ever done.

 

[TURNA]

Great job so far.

Not sure if you have an engine stand but if you do you could have used that and just made the C clamp to hold the transmission.

 

[Opie Knievel]

Great job so far.

Not sure if you have an engine stand but if you do you could have used that and just made the C clamp to hold the transmission.

I do have an engine stand and that idea was suggested to me already. The thing is I have an engine on the stand and another engine in the floor in the way of moving the stand to the chain hoist to get the engine off of the stand. Basically I'd have to move 2 engines around the garage to get the stand free and I didn't really feel like wrestling them around by myself. Plus, if I built a holding fixture and stand I'd get to practice welding. I love welding, I'm just not great at it yet so any excuse to practice is good with me.

 

[TURNA]

You could weld some of these up and Harbor Freight sell casters for cheapy cheapy

 

[MrSony]

I got the transmission out of the car, on the stand and tore down. Quick tip: when removing a transmission without a lift, jack the front of the car up and place your jack stands, wheels or whatever you use under it. Then lift the rear of the car up and put wheels or whatever under the tires or use jack stands. The object is to keep the car as level as possible. It makes removing and replacing the transmission easier.

This is what the inside of the pan and filter looked like.

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I'm not sure what happened on the pic of the filter but you can see there is plenty of metal shavings and other crud caked all over it.

My TH350 looked like that on the inside. Every single forward clutch was wiped clean, looked like they were all steels. I plopped it back together just to move it around the garage easily. I'm gonna try my hand at rebuilding mine this summer as something to do.

 

[Opie Knievel]

My TH350 looked like that on the inside. Every single forward clutch was wiped clean, looked like they were all steels. I plopped it back together just to move it around the garage easily. I'm gonna try my hand at rebuilding mine this summer as something to do.

Go for it man! I wish I would have been rebuilding automatics a long time ago.

 

[MrSony]

Go for it man! I wish I would have been rebuilding automatics a long time ago.

And hell, if it works I can just do that for a while. 900 bucks a pop. Of course I'll have to give the one I build some.. rigorous testing. 😛

 

[Opie Knievel]

And hell, if it works I can just do that for a while. 900 bucks a pop. Of course I'll have to give the one I build some.. rigorous testing. 😛

I was thinking the same thing. It'd be a good way to make extra money, especially since most people don't even try to do them themselves.

I'm sure this one will get plenty of rigorous testing when the Vortec goes in.