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Push through, and dream of winter... Sad part is hunidity affects cold same as heat.... At home it will be 35 with 50-60% humidity, and be quite chilly, ill drive to my mothers house where it will be 20 with 10% humidity abd it feels warner at her house....
Finished 6l80 internals up this evening, got the turbine shaft seals installed and sized, and reinstalled the 1-2-3-4/3-5-R drum and torqued the converter housing/pump assembly down and installed the tailshaft housing....
Tailshaft bolted on
Ready for valve body....
Torque converter housing torqued and cnverter seal installed....
They forgot to bring them, they have em, just left em at the shop, along with my bearings and rings, and the crank sprocket.... I an going to measure everything anyway, before it goes together...
Ordered a shifter cable bracket and shift lever for the 6l80 today, going to pick up the filter monday.... Sadly i will have a lot less in this trans swap than i do in the 4l60 i built for my 99, including the cooler lines, shift lever, etc... the turbine shaft seals and vb separator plate set me back less than $20.... Not sure i have hit $800 in this yet!! Still better than buying one!!!
Got valve body back together, pan on and filter in.... Some dummy forgot to take any pics, what i get for rushing..... also half *** bolted the brackets on today.... All $7 worth of shift lever and cable bracket.... Now to get engine together, and get ahold of a set of trans cooler lines, tcase input shaft, a trans cooler, torque converter and a somewhat long weekend to get it all in and go through tcase and front differential(since im going to drop it for clearance anyway)! At some point i will probably upgrade the g80 in the rear end, but for now at least im going to cross my fingers, toes and anything else that it doesnt break....figure i should be alright with 3.73s that are in it at least for a while..... Need a break from big projects for a while... Rather spend time driving and tuning them than replacing parts at this point.... And start saving for bigger better things!!!
Added up all the receipts for the trans today... $987 before converter, cooler lines , shifter cable and tcase input shaft.... Figure i will probably have something around $13-1400 in the trans when its all said and done....
07-14-2016 | 11:03 PM
also half *** bolted the brackets on today.... All $7 worth of shift lever and cable bracket.... Now to get engine together, and get ahold of a set of trans cooler lines, tcase input shaft, a trans cooler, torque converter and a somewhat long weekend to get it all in and go through tcase and front differential(since im going to drop it for clearance anyway)! At some point i will probably upgrade the g80 in the rear end, but for now at least im going to cross my fingers, toes and anything else that it doesnt break....figure i should be alright with 3.73s that are in it at least for a while..... Need a break from big projects for a while... Rather spend time driving and tuning them than replacing parts at this point.... And start saving for bigger better things!!!