Ok I got my Trans out..., Now what? Options

[rwilner]

I got my trans out of the car, packed, and shipped down to Richard Casto at Blue Sky for a rebuild.







My question is, what other work should I do now, or parts should I replace? the obvious stuff --
- new CV joint bolts (8)
- paper cv joint gaskets
- trans fluid (duh)

the cv boots look to be in good shape. Is there anything else obvious I should be doing with the trans out of the car?

thx
Rich

[Richard Casto]

I got my trans out of the car, packed, and shipped down to Richard Casto at Blue Sky for a rebuild.

If only Greyhound would finish shipping it, I could start work on it! I suspect the delay is a victim of holiday travel demand.

Richard

[bigkensteele]

I got my trans out of the car, packed, and shipped down to Richard Casto at Blue Sky for a rebuild.

If only Greyhound would finish shipping it, I could start work on it! I suspect the delay is a victim of holiday travel demand.

Richard

My previous employer (and the worst company in the Western Hemisphere to work for) is the parent company of Greyhound. I am familiar with their shipping systems. Let us all pray that said transmission arrives one day.

[Richard Casto]

I got my trans out of the car, packed, and shipped down to Richard Casto at Blue Sky for a rebuild.

If only Greyhound would finish shipping it, I could start work on it! I suspect the delay is a victim of holiday travel demand.

Richard

My previous employer (and the worst company in the Western Hemisphere to work for) is the parent company of Greyhound. I am familiar with their shipping systems. Let us all pray that said transmission arrives one day.

Transmission has arrived. I think the delay was due to to the holiday travel traffic. So far I have been happy with Greyhound, but in general I think all shipping companies are evil as I really don't think they care about service.

Can I get an amen?

RJMII does these now (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

ok, i will bite. drilled for safety wire??

my guess is someone drilled holes in the screw caps, after you install the screws, you feed wire through the caps, which prevents them from loosening up?

pelican has the triple square ones for 0.75 ea, where can I get these drilled ones?

Correct on the safety wire. Regarding sourcing, I don't think any of the typical suppliers offer them as to the best of my knowledge these are standard bolts that are drilled by hand (using a jig or otherwise). As Dr. Evil says RJMII took over doing that once Dr. Evil stopped. I don't know if RJMII is still doing those or not. PM him to find out if you are interested in going that route. I plan to start offering them myself (along with regular style), but am not ready to do so just yet. Clearly, the stock setup works and has for decades, but the safety wire setup adds additional protection.

Also as we talked about earlier, you should use new Schnorr washer on reassembly and new cap head bolts if yours are not in good condition.

I will let Dr. Evil and Racer Chris fight it out over the CV gaskets! Personally I have never had issues with using the paper gaskets. But! I do agree with the point that both have made in their own way that if you are not metal to metal and not using good hardware when you torque the bolts, it's not going to work.

Richard