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Hi I bought the parts for my transmission from a company called Fatsco they deal in antique transmission parts some of the gaskets weren't the greatest and I had to remake them. They also rent the tools to set the front and rear band. Hope this is helpful.
Hi for what it's worth I rebuilt my transmission and after talking to a lot of different people I decided to run hy Tran I have roughly a thousand miles on this transmission everything seems to work flawless I can't tell you too much on how it shifts because I put a manual valve body in this...
This is the hi/low range accumulator spring I had to take this apart to clean the rust out it was one of the scarier thing I took apart I'm pretty sure it tried to get me too
Here are the tools needed to set the band in the first pic and the last 2.
The second pic bottom is the tool to compress the rings between the 2 clutch packs and the top tool is to measure the end play in the main shaft you can get away without these.
the 3dr pic is a 1 5/16 wrench I modified...
Yes I'm out of town i will post some pics of the band tools when i get home .I was able to find them on ebay it took about 3 months to find then they pop up all the time on ebay once you figure out what to look for. Fatsco also rents them cheep if you get them a 300 deposit
Here are some pics of my project.
You can see the low speed cone that gets stuck, in the trany pic it gets stuck in the fiber cone that's in the rear housing .
Im working out of town this week I will post more of the K&N swap when I get home.
Yes truck is running great about 1000 mile since April this year.
The 2 speed: was rust to the forcing cone some people say you can shock the system by shoving it into hi range at 5 to 6 mph this didn't work for me I was able to clean it all up and it works great now. one more thing I am...
Here are a few pic of the trany rebuild
it took a while to find the tools to set the front a rear bands I was able to get parts from Fatsco all in all not to bad to rebuild.