07-31-2008, 08:29 PM
Today I adjusted the bands and installed other misc. stuff. Also started to tear down the valve body and found one of the check balls was missing but I am not sure of how that would affect the tranny. Luckily the kit came with replacements. I also started to remove all the valves and decided it was not worth all the trouble and also the possibility of messing something up so I just made sure they all actuated and left it at that. The kit came with two paper gaskets for the valve body. One of them matched up perfectly and the other would have worked but was kind of weird so I just left it off. While putting the valve body back together I stripped two of the bolts so now the project is on hold again until I can find someone to fix these stripped bolt holes. Unfortunately, I am flying tomorrow and won't have a chance to get it to the machine shop so looks like I will not be able to get the tranny back up this weekend. I guess I could slave the pan on and leave the valve body out so I can mount the tranny and just have it ready to accept the body when it is ready; that was I can get something productive done this weekend. I am on leave next week so there is no reason for this tranny project to not be completed.
'77 351w- Explorer EFI, 4R70W, 4-link, lockers, 4.56, 35" MT/Rs with a severe rock addiction.mokin:
Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads.
Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads.