So some of you know awhile back I took my truck off roading and wound up in water up to the headlights which ended up filling both differentials and my transmission with water in the process (Yes there was alcohol involved)
When I got home I immediately flushed all the fluids but the damage was already done on the transmission. It drove fine for months and then slowly but surely the clutch material started to come apart and it started to slip during shifts. I decided to go ahead and have it freshened up before it caused some real damage.

In case people would like to see what caused the damage..

http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o56/killerme999/14b3327d-5cea-4e3f-94ad-8dc6c0a055b.jpg
http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o56/killerme999/fc39eafc-559a-45a8-8689-21f43935e51.jpg

And the couple gallons of transmission fluid I flushed out.. (ran my trans cooler drain line into the drain pan and the intake side into a 5 gal bucket of fresh fluid and ran it for minutes)
http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o56/killerme999/0efaeba0-45ce-4cde-843e-9c8eb14f3f7.jpg


So here is what I see when I pull the pan


At this point im still assuming all the hard parts and everything else are good. The trans guy takes it and to get hot tanked and then I get a call...

Turns out the bell housing was cracked pretty bad in two places



So then I did some research and found out with the early 1 piece case 4l60e's this was fairly common. I went on LS1 tech, etc. and came to the conclusion I was going to have it welded rather than spend the $$ on a new case since lots of people have had success with it. Luckily I found a local guy that had alot of experience welding transmission cases and I am pretty happy with the result considering it is shitty cast aluminum and only cost $35.

After welding:
http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o56/killerme999/photobucket-5121-1357756662424.jpg
http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o56/killerme999/photobucket-4056-1357759097050.jpg
http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o56/killerme999/photobucket-3422-1357759119870.jpg

Btw did the work in a little 1 car garage... was pretty fun to say the least. Anyways its all back together and shifts better than ever

i don't know whether to take your redneck card away or give you an award.

lol you can imagine the kinda shit my friends give me. I have found out the hard way drinking and off roading is a hell of a lot of fun but can be costly

Heres a shot of my giant work space. I can barely open the drivers side door..

at this point it's time to scratch off the vin and leave it to its watery grave

at least it gives you a productive winter project

This post was edited by Morphmcmanerson on Jan 9 2013 01:56pm

Nah.. I bought a 94 for a reason. I dont care if I scratch it, etc. its made to be functional not pretty.

And hows that working out?

That's shallow

i had bolts in my oil pan when i changed the gasket/filter on my th350, found where they went and checked all the other bolts on the valve body to be safe tough.

Runs awesome, even with my dumbass beating on it. Its been rainy a little lately im going to take it out this afternoon ill try to take some pics.



Well the truck didnt die I turned it off because it started to drop off pretty fast and even though I was drunk as shit I knew I didnt have a snorkle, etc. and it would be a bad idea to try and get out going forward. Couldnt back up because it was all big ass rocks and white water not to mention my distributor and everything was already soaked so it would barely run.

Heres a pic of my friends before they started bouncing all over the place trying to pull me out




Edit- and so everyone knows my breather line for the transmission is now higher than my air cleaner so if im deep enough to fuck the trans up I have bigger problems.

This post was edited by Killerme99 on Jan 10 2013 10:37am

Shit at least im not as dumb as some guy I know.... still have no clue where he thought he was going.




Same guy...


This post was edited by Killerme99 on Jan 10 2013 10:46am