My 2000 Sierra, Sophie

[BigGraySophieTheSierra]

Lol all the vehicles I've owned I've spent all my money trying to keep them running. This one is the only one that has been around long enough for me to do some playing with. Along with keeping it running haha. Budget building sucks though

 

[silverado13]

i know the feeling, i went through 8 trannys in my 97 alone

 

[Bonecollector]

i know the feeling, i went through 8 trannys in my 97 alone

Why so many?


Sent from Team Sierra

 

[BigGraySophieTheSierra]

i know the feeling, i went through 8 trannys in my 97 alone

Dang, that's bad. Usually once a vehicle of mine got to trans problems I let it go. I kinda wish I didn't with my old Firebird Formula though

 

[silverado13]

because i was 17-21 years old and dogged the ever living heck out of it, crack a couple of them getting air and coming down hard, i stopped having issues when i started building my own trannys

 

[BigGraySophieTheSierra]

Dang, yeah that'll tear em up lol.
That's the only way to know it's going to work well is if you do it yourself, after some practice of course haha

 

[silverado13]

lots of research helps, before i rebuilt my first, i read up on them soo much, so when i actually got into the tranny, i had a very good idea as to what i was looking at. other then that its not hard, people are scared of them for no reason

 

[BigGraySophieTheSierra]

My main concern has always been the cleanliness your workspace has to maintain while you're workin on it, if I had a garage of my own I'd be okay with working on em haha.
I've tinkered with em before in school, but never built one

 

[silverado13]

ive built a couple on the back of my tailgate lol, all i do is before i put a hard part into the tranny i spray it down with brake cleaner, i do that with evrything except the clutches, those need to be socked in tranny fluid, plus assembly lube helps keep things clean

 

[BigGraySophieTheSierra]

Ah, well hell, I could do that lol. That was my main concern. I know that'll save a ton of money haha

 

[silverado13]

i have a local tranny supply store a few miles from my house, rebuild kits are only $120, so that and fluid, alot better then $2500 in a shop

 

[BigGraySophieTheSierra]

Most definitely, that's almost enough of a deal I'd rebuild my trans for fun this weekend haha

 

[silverado13]

once you do your first, then its no big deal

https://www.youtube.com/user/hiramgutierrez

subscribe to this guy and watch his videos on 4l60e trannys

 

[BigGraySophieTheSierra]

Dang he's got a lot of trans rebuild videos haha

 

[silverado13]

thats what he does for a living so what he does, is everytime he builds a tranny, he just does a how to video

 

[BigGraySophieTheSierra]

That's pretty awesome. Thanks for showin me that

 

[silverado13]

it just goes to show though that building a tranny isnt that impossible, i remember before i did my first one, my dad told me that i couldnt do it because it was a specialty thing that only shops could do, and thats coming from my da who was a mechanic for years, i took that as a challenge and did my first one flawless

 

[BigGraySophieTheSierra]

Very nice! Lol I knew I would be able to do it, just wasn't sure about the cleanliness part

 

[silverado13]

i used brake cleaner to clean out the case before i put everything together, then all the hard parts get assembly lube, and all the clutches bet soaked in tranny fluid

 

[BigGraySophieTheSierra]

Very nice, I'll get around to rebuilding mine one of these days. Unless I can yank the drivetrain out of one of the retired company vans we've got at work to rebuild. 6.0, 4L80E in each of em with 200,000 miles