Awesome!!!
I hope i was able to help you more than I confused you!
Lol!
No KK, the PDF was 1st grade easy, compared to that TCOAA confusion. Like I said before, I could do J-Mods now, all day long without reading anything. Kracker's electrical internal swap is also 1st grade easy. I'm going to need more fluid. Right now it only has 12 quarts in and when I started it, after the first 5 quarts were put in, I was crazy low on gas. I took my time about getting the fluid in and didn't rush it but at the same time, I didn't have long before I would be out of gas.
First 5 quarts did nothing at all to make it shift into any gears but that's normal with a bone dry trans. I added 3 more, 2 min later, shifted through all the gears slowly and still didn't have much for movement but I could feel a little something happening. Few min later, I added the other 4 quarts and then put the dipstick in. Now I had some good movement and obviously the first thing you want to do is test
but I needed some gas anyway. BTW, for inquiry minds, $25.00 of Chevron 93 got me 8.01 gallons. $3.09 down here per gallon.
I was easy on it at first until I knew it had warmed up and when I got out onto Madison BLVD., I put it down about 3/4 and the 2nd gear was what I had hoped for. Just simple normal driving, it shifts into 2nd pretty quick and doesn't have the hard jerk but you do know it has went into 2nd.
Anyway, thanks KK for that info you sent and the phone conversation and you too Tommy for the heads up on a few things that I really needed to know before I got started. The info from both of you is what got me off to a good start and caused the end result of what I would call near perfection with what I had to work with.
The pole smoker Jamie wants to send me a picture message to my phone while I'm under the car and show me his new front end parts lol. I was putting the cross member back in and he sends me the pic, titled "Fun Time"
I was already involved with more than enough fun time. I had to explain myself with a text back and let him know it would be done and he sends back, "you think"
All in all, changing out a transmission really does require a 2nd person and luckily, the person I had, really knew what he was doing and was a big help. This goes for the ones that aren't rich enough to have lifts and 15 ft. ceilings and paying someone else to do it for you. Yes, I paid for help but without it, it would still be setting out there not done. Anyone that pays hundreds for a shop to install is either stupid or is simply a wuss or if you don't have at least a garage and it's cold out, I could understand. My garage was about 65 to 70 degrees and old comforters laid under the car. No creepers here!
The one that mentioned that I had just enough room for the trans to go under the car was right. We got the first one out and used a jack but it had to be dropped off the jack and slid out. The 98 had to be slid under and then put up onto the jack and that damn hump on the pan made things hard when we were trying to get it bolted back in. No good way to really balance it. We put a piece of a 2X6 in front of the hump to help balance it but I'm sure there are better ways. Anyway, it's done and works like a new one but better.
Before next week is over, it will have some real exhaust put in. That's another mod I have been waiting a long time for and it's coming.
