reverse went out in the truck last night!

[knightowl73]

I reversed out of the driveway just fine last night to drop my gf off at work , got there and couldnt reverse out of the parking spot. i know my th350 trans uses the same clutches for 1st and reverse, so i know its going out all together real soon. Sucks, i was just about to do motor upgrades till now.

Might be pulling the trans out of one of my other projects, since its the same exact trans and it wasnt the trans i wanted to use in the car anyways, but i was real close to hearing it run too, so now id be backtracking on getting it done. But my truck is way more important than my "moneypit" is.

my only other option is to completely rebuild one of the other 3 cores that i have, would only take me a day, but then i am spending about 90 bucks to rebuild it, on top of the 30 for a case of trans fluid, and at least another 100 for a new torque convertor. That money just isnt available to me right now, and i need the truck back up asap. i dont think it would be wise to try and use the old converter in the new trans to try to save money.
ive been driving it but not far, and only when i need to, dont want to get stranded anywhere.

so you think i should take a chance on stabbing in the trans from my other project? it was taken from a running truck about 3 yrs ago and has been sitting in my project since then.

[old Rusty C10]

sitting that long it may not be much better than what you have now.... id just get ready to bite the bullet and do the rebuild on the one in the truck

[knightowl73]

yes i think im waking up early tommorrow so ican take apart one of the others i have and just rebuild it. dont really want to pull the one form my other project when i have others that are already out.

[allengator]

Originally Posted by knightowl73

it was taken from a running truck about 3 yrs ago and has been sitting in my project since then.

I would be tempted to give it a shot...

I have gotten 4 or 5 cars running that have sit longer than that without having transmission issues...

[knightowl73]

well out of the three other longtail th350's i had, all of them were lock-ups, and the only one i had that wasnt was in my monte carlo project, so i took it out. while it was out u pulled it apart just to check. one broken governor spring in the valve body was broken, everything else seemed fine except the fact that a bit of water had sat there in the pan awhile. i cleaned it out really good and put it all back together new seals and gaskets. i suspect it recently had had been rebuilt looking at everything.

ill be putting it in tommorrow morning, getting a early start at it. only thing left to do is drill out a broken pan bolt and swap in my current speedo gears and put the sucker in. hopefully it wont take me all day. already planning a head swap soon and id like to get the heads dropped off before the machine shop closes at five. id like to get them back before new years so i can "play" with it

[willett]

it happened to my th400 and my reverse quit because the reverse band pulled right out out of the case.

it was only 6 months after a rebuild :|