thanks for that bondy, always appreciative of a follow up.

So theoretically you can have a spare brand new auto for $1000? Not bad really.

low_ryda

No worries, that's true, one can have a good spare one for under $1,000.

However, what I've been told by a person working in the auto transmission repair industry that most, if not all, trannies going through their workshop replaces everything including solenoids whether it's needed or not....industry standard...so I was told.....no wonder those companies charge a fortune and the prices of gearbox are so high.

Rip-off merchants in my book

Cheers

It is great to see an update to a problem.

This is many years later but I had a gearbox do exactly the same thing. I suspect the box I have was rebuilt some time before I got it as the shaft seal was soft and flexible and the pump gasket stayed intact during disassembly.

Once I pulled the pump apart the pump drive was stuck on the stator shaft and the two tabs from the torque convertor were sheared off. First time I had driven the car with a horse float on in traffic. It just lost forward drive. Once the car was home on the back of a tow truck I started it up and drove it up the driveway. After that it never moved.


I can only guess that the pump drive is heating up and binding to stator shaft. The engine has no trouble shearing off the torque convertor tabs. I swapped in another pump drive and so far so good. The first drive was towing a 1T trailer.

The dirty computer connector pins caused the speedo to drop out, which then caused the box to shift down under no throttle in preparation for take off from a stop. Not good at 70km/h the box quickly realised some thing was not right and shifted to neutral.

so how long does it take you to do a BTR swap time wise now ?

also are you going pot luck wreckers boxes or ?