Nooooo! Leave the splinters at home! Sorry Matt, hafta be careful of typos around here. Eric VW taught me well!
Now if I could only help folks with capitalizing, and basic punctuation. I tell ya- some posts are written as one long run on sentence and it really makes for difficult reading one person does this and it’s excruciating i remember first learning these things in elementary school I was regularly asked to proofread classmates papers and essays all the way thru hi school it was fun so I still don’t mind doing it at work and here on fhc sometimes it gets old tho See what I mean?
I read that okay and i know who you are referring to. All kidding aside, my punctuation and spelling have gotten a lot worse as ive aged. I learned some texting shorthand as well as acronyms and shorthand on here as well.
Y’all are funny. Yes, splitters are welcomed, splinters not so much. That’s my slowest process I think, maybe stacking. It sure would be nice to get my hands on some more of these cages. Here’s a in progress photo after I hung some photos on the wall for the Mrs I’ve been putting off too long.
WhatifitypedareplylikethisWouldthatbefrustrating? Let's eat grandma! Let's eat, grandma! Punctuation saves lives!
Tractor. Buick. It would seem that your equipment has been plagued by tranny troubles for quite some time now. At what point will you upgrade or move one?
If the torque converter is not in the proper position it would not turn to get the fasteners attached. Or stuff would break when the transaxle housing is mated with the engine block. My guess is a bad converter. a simple solution to the issue would be to trade the car in for a truck. The OP would no Longer have an ongoing trans issue and have a truck that is needed for firewood and be able to retrieve the parts needed to get the tractor fixed properly. Many birds with one stone...
I used the one that came with the used transmission. It is a strange issue. I can back up my driveway, turn around, go to the end of the drive; about 25 feet, stop, turn right up a slight incline and when it shifts from 1st to 2nd I will feel the stutter telling me that the torque converter is locked on and the check engine light will pop on. I will drive up the street a short distance to a place I can stop. I stop, turn off the engine, wait just a few seconds, start the engine, put it in reverse, back up, stop, put it in drive and it will be unlocked and fine for the rest of the day, driving and doing many stops. The only answer I have gotten is that when the car is cold there is a leak between areas in the valve body that locks up the torque converter. To pull the side cover on this tranny; 4T65E, you have to remove the transmission. There is a guy on YouTube that does it without removing the trans but it still isn't easy and you have to be ready to catch the checkballs that will come rolling out. I think with the work he does that it is just a step shy of just pulling out the transmission. When I can get the shed free, I am going to pull the car into the shed and install a trans-go shift kit; I can do that by dropping the bottom pan; the part for the valve body I won't install; just the accumulators that are accessible from the bottom. If I do end up pulling the trans out, I will be putting in a new torque converter; the reason I didn't was that the used torque converter only had 29K miles on it; the used trans only had 29K miles on it. I drove the car for a year and it never had the issue; however, it did come back this winter so it does seem related to cold weather. I did put some seafoam trans stuff in to clean the valves; it states that it does not swell seals. Of course the trans sat for awhile. When I took the bottom pan off the trans when I got it, the fluid that had settled out of the trans was nice bright pink; so I do think the trans was low mileage and matched the odometer reading; they also supplied the VIN to the car for me to check. Anyway, didn't mean to hijack the thread here; it was just an off mention when you mentioned being able to overhaul an auto trans. I really didn't not expect an answer. By the way, if you have never done major engine and trans work, you don't have a clue to how much work it is to service vehicles today; it isn't like working on old cars. So take your ROFL elsewhere. I have one vehicle and it will be a major job pulling this trans again; for one, the whole driver side suspension has to be removed and the cradle split. It isn't simply a matter of pulling the cover and removing the valve body; can't be done.
