A good friend (Speed Secrets) saved my butt
01-16-2006, 01:31 AM
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A good friend (Speed Secrets) saved my butt
I got the 402 up and running with the help of some friends a couple of weeks ago. Everything seemed great for ohhh... about 36 whole miles. Truck stops on road on Sunday night (with Wife in passenger seat...) on the way to our first night out since I broke the LQ4 /Radix combo. NOT GOOD AT ALL 
So I'm thinking my love life will consist of
and some lotion. Not so! I got the truck towed home and at 1130 at night my bud over at Speed Secrets came to pick up the H2 with a Dually and a flatbed. That was awesome. I really didn't have the time or the energy to deal with the breakage after spending four weeks straight sweating this whole build and install.
Turned out it was a broken transmission pump that took her down (my fault). Speed Secrets fixed her up and had her ready for pickup by the next saturday. When you're out of time and out of patience its good to have a reliable shop nearby that will go the extra... oh 150 or so miles... to take care of the customer.
This is the best shop in the northwest and the only one that gets my business. They put my H2 into the 13's with one of their trannies and fixed it up again when I broke it during install
Thanks a million Ellis! I've put 300 miles on the truck since I got it back and not a single hiccup. Hell, even my wife was willing to take it out alone this evening.
If you're in WA state (or anywhere within driving/shipping distance) and need a good mechanic send me a PM. I can hook you up.
Free lesson learned... DON'T use bolts to draw the tranny and engine into alignment!
So I'm thinking my love life will consist of
and some lotion. Not so! I got the truck towed home and at 1130 at night my bud over at Speed Secrets came to pick up the H2 with a Dually and a flatbed. That was awesome. I really didn't have the time or the energy to deal with the breakage after spending four weeks straight sweating this whole build and install. Turned out it was a broken transmission pump that took her down (my fault). Speed Secrets fixed her up and had her ready for pickup by the next saturday. When you're out of time and out of patience its good to have a reliable shop nearby that will go the extra... oh 150 or so miles... to take care of the customer.
This is the best shop in the northwest and the only one that gets my business. They put my H2 into the 13's with one of their trannies and fixed it up again when I broke it during install
Thanks a million Ellis! I've put 300 miles on the truck since I got it back and not a single hiccup. Hell, even my wife was willing to take it out alone this evening.
If you're in WA state (or anywhere within driving/shipping distance) and need a good mechanic send me a PM. I can hook you up.
Free lesson learned... DON'T use bolts to draw the tranny and engine into alignment!
01-16-2006, 04:02 AM
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Just Glad you are getting to enjoy that baby again! I hope the wife has her Caddy back soon and things settle down enough to have fun again 
01-16-2006, 11:00 PM
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Originally Posted by CHarris
I got the 402 up and running with the help of some friends a couple of weeks ago. Everything seemed great for ohhh... about 36 whole miles. Truck stops on road on Sunday night (with Wife in passenger seat...) on the way to our first night out since I broke the LQ4 /Radix combo. NOT GOOD AT ALL
So I'm thinking my love life will consist of and some lotion. Not so! I got the truck towed home and at 1130 at night my bud over at Speed Secrets came to pick up the H2 with a Dually and a flatbed. That was awesome. I really didn't have the time or the energy to deal with the breakage after spending four weeks straight sweating this whole build and install.
Turned out it was a broken transmission pump that took her down (my fault). Speed Secrets fixed her up and had her ready for pickup by the next saturday. When you're out of time and out of patience its good to have a reliable shop nearby that will go the extra... oh 150 or so miles... to take care of the customer.
This is the best shop in the northwest and the only one that gets my business. They put my H2 into the 13's with one of their trannies and fixed it up again when I broke it during install
Thanks a million Ellis! I've put 300 miles on the truck since I got it back and not a single hiccup. Hell, even my wife was willing to take it out alone this evening.
If you're in WA state (or anywhere within driving/shipping distance) and need a good mechanic send me a PM. I can hook you up.
Free lesson learned... DON'T use bolts to draw the tranny and engine into alignment!
So I'm thinking my love life will consist of
and some lotion. Not so! I got the truck towed home and at 1130 at night my bud over at Speed Secrets came to pick up the H2 with a Dually and a flatbed. That was awesome. I really didn't have the time or the energy to deal with the breakage after spending four weeks straight sweating this whole build and install. Turned out it was a broken transmission pump that took her down (my fault). Speed Secrets fixed her up and had her ready for pickup by the next saturday. When you're out of time and out of patience its good to have a reliable shop nearby that will go the extra... oh 150 or so miles... to take care of the customer.
This is the best shop in the northwest and the only one that gets my business. They put my H2 into the 13's with one of their trannies and fixed it up again when I broke it during install
Thanks a million Ellis! I've put 300 miles on the truck since I got it back and not a single hiccup. Hell, even my wife was willing to take it out alone this evening.
If you're in WA state (or anywhere within driving/shipping distance) and need a good mechanic send me a PM. I can hook you up.
Free lesson learned... DON'T use bolts to draw the tranny and engine into alignment!
Originally Posted by CHarris
If you're in WA state (or anywhere within driving/shipping distance) and need a good mechanic send me a PM. I can hook you up.
Can you PM me some estimates on what a tune (dyno would be cool) would cost me? A few of my buddies and I were quoted $350 each to install a TB stall, is that fair?
01-18-2006, 09:07 PM
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Little trick I use to line them up is to put a floor jack under the trans pan to lift it up at more of an angle then sit the motor down in teh bay with a load leveler and tilt the back end of the motor down and it just about pops into place
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