by sloppy2nds000 » Tue Feb 04, 2014 4:33 am
problem solved. i plowed my barn yard and opened my driveway last night for 5 hrs. drive was 2 feet deep for 600 feet. combined effort with tractor and truck.
so the problem was even though the clutch pack i pulled out of the truck when i did the torque converter looked to be the same fibers, they werent, and they werent badly worn either, but since i was there i replaced them. however they were a fair amount thinner, and the steels look to be about .020 thicker. so when i put the new frictions in they were alot thicker and since my kit didnt come with new steels, i ran the old ones. became way too tight so tight i couldnt get the snap ring to fit. so i said the heck with it and put the old fibers in and saved the new fibers for my full rebuild this summer.
so when i blew the reverse servo/band/drum i figured it would be a good time to replace the steels, so i ordered some, a full kit. new steels were thinner which made the pack thinner than it was before. new steels in hand i decided to put the new parts to the front plus the new steels in the rear. well when i put it together i thought it was way too loose so i tossed in an old steel from the rear pack. figured it would be fine. nope, not at all.
so now its all good, fresh steels and fibers in the front drum and i did put new steel in the rear drum while i had the od housing off to clean the trash out of it from the band catastrophe.
thanks a bunch guys
91 w250 a518 regular cab plow truck, bone stock, just over 100k, 1 ton front springs and air bags in the rear
94.5 f350 crew cab long bed powerstroke, 100hp beans injectors, solid state chip with 6 pos switch, adrenaline HPOP, about to turn 300k, summer work truck.
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