Follow up on the transmission rebuild just completed
I got my car back today. The guys have had it for 8 days. They rebuilt the whole thing seals nuts bolts the lot. The small foward speed clutch does all 4 foward gears and was close to perfect after 270 k's. The reverse clutch is around twice the size and was metal on metal. There was also a rubber seal on a clutch which was apsolutly stuffed, worn hard brittle. All in all she did need it, one glitch was (as questioned in an earlier post) that they put a ball in the valve body (I dont know what these do or look like) which was 20 thousanths of an inch too small. ( they seem to come in several set sizes so they obviously put the wrong size in) This caused the reverse clutch to bleed and have no pressure and burned out the foward clutch right away. So they ripped it to bits again and put another ball and new clutch in. The total expense was as quoted $2200 + 160 for 2 x bolts they threaded pulling the exhaust off (common apparently). Total $2360. I suppose this is about right. They also said all other aspects of the "hard" parts were perfect.This shows these transmisisons really are good quality. They also told me the new falcon and commonwhore transmissions will last from 150 - 200k's. So there you go guys, another rebuild & another tax return spent on an E34.
Just bought my second E34
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Originally Posted by F4Phantom
I got my car back today. The guys have had it for 8 days. They rebuilt the whole thing seals nuts bolts the lot. The small foward speed clutch does all 4 foward gears and was close to perfect after 270 k's. The reverse clutch is around twice the size and was metal on metal. There was also a rubber seal on a clutch which was apsolutly stuffed, worn hard brittle. All in all she did need it, one glitch was (as questioned in an earlier post) that they put a ball in the valve body (I dont know what these do or look like) which was 20 thousanths of an inch too small. ( they seem to come in several set sizes so they obviously put the wrong size in) This caused the reverse clutch to bleed and have no pressure and burned out the foward clutch right away. So they ripped it to bits again and put another ball and new clutch in. The total expense was as quoted $2200 + 160 for 2 x bolts they threaded pulling the exhaust off (common apparently). Total $2360. I suppose this is about right. They also said all other aspects of the "hard" parts were perfect.This shows these transmisisons really are good quality. They also told me the new falcon and commonwhore transmissions will last from 150 - 200k's. So there you go guys, another rebuild & another tax return spent on an E34.
G'day mate , where did you get your tranny done? Mine is still going ok but with 194000ks under the belt i must be prepared for it to die at any moment. By the way, have you ever had to fit a check valve to your fuel supply? If yes where did you get it? Cheers...Leister