The 76 all polished up. Jose, er, HoseB, did a great job on it.

I should note, the paint on this car was pretty much gone prior to him working on it. looked matte almost.

Well, this is what I get for thinking I was ahead of the curve. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/angry.gif" alt="" />


Point of failure;
Drove the truck to get coffee in the morning, 15 minute drive on surface streets, 45mph max, casual drive. Sat in drive through for 5 minutes, began to drive home, made it 7 minutes down the road, stopped at a stoplight, began to lightly accelerate to 45mph, first gear shifted, second gear held on longer than normal, i let off the throttle due to this surprise, trans seemed to shift, rolled back into the throttle to find a neutral state, no drive gear, no bad noises, just free revving. Checked the gear select to make sure it didnt pop out somehow, still in gear. Coasted to the side and phoned up Toasty for the rescue.

Tinkering before the failure;
The night prior I finally hooked the AC back up, when i got the truck it was taken apart so i have been piecing everything back together, one thing I had noticed with around town driving was that the truck seemed to hold gears longer than it should and adam drove it once and said 'it feels like it's constantly towing something' I attempted to adjust the kick down cable and give it a little more slack so maybe it would shift a little earlier. Aside from that change and the addition of the AC working (wasnt using it at point of failure) no changes had been made.

Background;
Truck was sitting for 5/6 years after the flywheel bolts had wobbled loose and/or broke off, i extracted the bolts, put on a new/correct flywheel, put on what I think was a new torque converter, but i have no real knowledge, it just looked new and came with the truck. Didn't change fluid or anything (because im dumbbbb)

So the trans is the original, but when i was putting the engine in, the TC slid out and got misaligned, cracked the front pump, i pulled the engine back out and swapped in the pump from Kevin's "swamp trans" that pump worked, until now. I think anyhow. All gears lead to nowhere, no reverse, no drive, no noises, no problems, dropped the pan and found nothing crazy, changed the fluid and the filter, still no action from the old AW03-72L

At this point I think the pump is shot, for a couple of reasons:
-It came from questionable transmission (hey, it was a last ditch chance to get the truck wheeling)
-A clogged cooler/line generally causes a pump starvation sound (whine like a power steering pump low on fluid); mine is silent
-Engine doesn't bog down when put into gear, RPM doesn't lower at all. which leads me to believe I likely have zero line pressure.

Anyone know how to check line pressure on these? I would like to check as much as I can without removing the trans, so at least I know where to start once it's out.

I'd just slap a new trans in it and go driving again, it's not like you don't have a bunch laying around.

The flexplate coming off mashed the pump in the trans .. The pumps died ...

I guess you overlooked the part where I said I had already replaced the pump. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" />

Regardless, there's definite ticking coming from the front pump, and no pressure in the system, it's busted. New trans is being prepped for install this week.

That's just gorgeous!

Thanks Ryan.

So now we have a 99 with winter package as well. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/kewl.gif" alt="" />

Lose the running boards or you're out of the club.

John B.

fine.<img src="/forums/images/graemlins/patriot.gif" alt="" />

They're all back up and running. The raider has a V6 trans and TC in it now. I'll be daily driving it through the summer, then my uncle is taking it when he comes back this winter, so we'll add another gen 1 owner to the group <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />