So I had some transmission issues. I appears through my heavy foot I just broke the damn thing. I took it to the builder last week and he said the forward sprag was completely trashed. But, its fixed and ready to come home. Time to make the 180 mile round trip....which goes really fast when you're on a nice new highway.
Pro1 Transmission in Texarkana AR. These guys know their stuff.
After I chatted with the owner for a bit and loaded up it was time to head back home.
I took the stock truck pan off.
And I tried to install a new aluminum pan.......but it wont fit. It seems to be hitting the filter inside the pan.
The filter support risers are obviously made for a car filter (shorter) and this has a truck filter installed. I measured the gap at the pan rail to be around 5/8 from seating on the trans...... and I don't have a car filter, so I cut the damn things off.
Here is a pan depth measurement. Stock truck pan was 3 inches deep, and also you can see the risers after cutting 5/8ths off them.
Success!
Ready to slide back in. The trans jack makes the job easy when you're a one man band.
Walmart no longer carries transmission fluid....dipshits, so I bought a case of this from the local auto parts store....and the price was actually really good.
The new muffler.
No performance loss here.
I added it into the rear section of the pipe but left the bullet muffler also.
Back on the ground and needing a bath bad.
Cheers, you earned it!
So the trans is back to acting right, the exhaust is nice. My impressions of the new muffler is it obviously toned it down. It is mellow and very deep at idle, it has more tone/sound now then it did before. Cruising at light throttle its actually very quiet (you can't hear it inside the truck), under moderate throttle or rpm it wakes right up and lets you know its there. Under full throttle its pretty loud, and the tone breaks up some at mid rpms (kind of what comes with a loud exhaust) but its controlled and not terrible sounding like it was with just the bullet muffler.
Pro1 Transmission in Texarkana AR. These guys know their stuff.
After I chatted with the owner for a bit and loaded up it was time to head back home.
I took the stock truck pan off.
And I tried to install a new aluminum pan.......but it wont fit. It seems to be hitting the filter inside the pan.
The filter support risers are obviously made for a car filter (shorter) and this has a truck filter installed. I measured the gap at the pan rail to be around 5/8 from seating on the trans...... and I don't have a car filter, so I cut the damn things off.
Here is a pan depth measurement. Stock truck pan was 3 inches deep, and also you can see the risers after cutting 5/8ths off them.
Success!
Ready to slide back in. The trans jack makes the job easy when you're a one man band.
Walmart no longer carries transmission fluid....dipshits, so I bought a case of this from the local auto parts store....and the price was actually really good.
The new muffler.
No performance loss here.
I added it into the rear section of the pipe but left the bullet muffler also.
Back on the ground and needing a bath bad.
Cheers, you earned it!
So the trans is back to acting right, the exhaust is nice. My impressions of the new muffler is it obviously toned it down. It is mellow and very deep at idle, it has more tone/sound now then it did before. Cruising at light throttle its actually very quiet (you can't hear it inside the truck), under moderate throttle or rpm it wakes right up and lets you know its there. Under full throttle its pretty loud, and the tone breaks up some at mid rpms (kind of what comes with a loud exhaust) but its controlled and not terrible sounding like it was with just the bullet muffler.
