Hey Corky, how's the transmission going? Get that T/C from Ed yet??

He's got it. I hope your car is feeling better; re-charge that battery!!

It was the positive terminal on the starter... thats why jumper cables wouldnt help at all

So I found out reading the other post. I figured the battery was dead based on the size of the speakers behind the back seat.

Originally posted by edrach

So I found out reading the other post. I figured the battery was dead based on the size of the speakers behind the back seat.

 

Well, the tranny is a spare in case the one in the wife's car fails. The one in her car has been in 4 cars so far. I know this because there are wrecking yard markings from three different yards on it. So it was in the orginal car, install in a second car (first set of marks), then pulled and installed in a third car (the second set of marks), then pulled and installed into my wife's car (third set of marks). Since I'm still not suppose to lift anything heavy after my surgery (Sure makes taking a leak hard), I haven't done anything with it. The first thing I'm going to do to it is the first thing you should have done to it, and that is clean it. So if you are looking for how the tranny works, it may be awhile.

Well, glad you got your stuff Corky. Again, the reason I did not clean it is because I did not disassemble the front differential because we do nto have the tools to set the backlash or bearing preload, and I did not want to risk filling the diff with water by putting the tranny case in the jetwasher liek we normally do, since then you have to steam-clean the poop out of it to get the solvent off of it, which you have to do or the oil wont' adhere properly, and bye-bye front diff, so I figured whoever bought the tranny would rather it be dirty, than have the front diff fail.

Andrew, I have cleaned probably more trannies then you have seen, and at least ten of those were Subarus, I have no idea, nor to others I have talked with, how you'd ever get water into the front diff while washing the tranny, unless you removed the front diff dipstick and sprayed water directly into the tube. I have both a pressure washer and a steam cleaner. My normal method is to use a degreaser on the tranny then use the pressure washer to wash that off. I have never had a front diff fail, or show any signs that it might be damaged. I don't know where you got the idea that washing that tranny would cause that, but it has never been the case with any trannies I have washed.

That was just what my teacher told me, and our jet washer is like a big washing machine that blasts the whole thing with like 12 jets of hot water and solvent. Looking at it I guess it wouldnt' have hurt, but he strongly recommended against it unless I tore the whole thing down.

 

And no I would not have sold you a garbage tranny, saying it was rebuilt, it was tested on our tranny dyno before I brought it home.

I can attest for the rebuild Corky. I was there through most of it from the teardown to the dyno testing:D

There is an old saying that may apply here. Them that can do, do, them that can't teach. I wish I had a dollar for every time I have proved my shop teacher wrong.

 

Caboobaroo, since you and Andrew seemed to be joined at the hip (inseparable), I have the idea that you may be a little tainted in your opinion. I'm not saying that Andrew did anything wrong with the rebuilt, I'm just saying that auto tranny are very susceptible to dirt, and seeing a dirting tranny that someone has just rebuilt sets off alarms to me. I have been rebuilding car long before the both of you were born, I think I have a little more knowledge in this area then the both of you combined. I rebuilt my first engine (a Ford 292 V8) at the age of 10, and that was 45 years ago. By the way, that engine ran for over 100,000 miles before having to be rebuilt again 12 years later.