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Re: Restoring Rusty
and out of all the 57 bolts on top of this monstrocity these are the only two that actually hold it down to the transmission no kidding no joke
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Re: Restoring Rusty
It just sounds like it's lonely.
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Re: Restoring Rusty
It appears that some loctite love is in your immediate future. I'm far too much of a realist to be a silver linings guy, but it does appear that there's an alternate perspective available here. If you had never pulled the transmission cover off and allowed the shifter to move around enough to telegraph the problem, one day you might have had the lever pop off in your hand and be waving it around the cab wondering what to do with it. Be okay if it was stuck in drive but if it was in reverse it might be a different story.
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Funny, my last two have been as well. I managed to find a little gratefulness for that in the middle of my frustration of the breakdown. Are you going to contact Lokar? They should want to be aware of this issue, after all, it was more than one screw that was jettisoned. It seems that they might need to provide loctite with the shifter. Plus, they oughta overnight you a couple of the right size screws.
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I asked him if you could send me the rod with the bends in it and I would gladly pay them for it if not at least the shipping, he said they can not because it depends on my application, which I disagree with, since they know exactly which position my stick sits in and how far it needs to go to the stock transmission lever, plus they should have a mule trans set up in their lab or their test station. He also told me I can not use their cable shifter since it appears my trans crossmember is in the way. I am honestly looking at other options, and cable I think is the only way to go. |
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if you're tired of doing things right the first time, and prefer to do things the hard way than I strongly recommend looming your thinned out custom LS wiring harness whilst already installed on the truck
here I have pulled up the transmission branch which I put off looming for about a year I figured now's as good time as any since I had to remove the turtle shell to fandangle with the busted Lokar shifter |
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and this is where things went south
the unloomed wiring harness worked the purdy loomed harness not so much, well it worked except for one thing, it wouldn't show me which gear I selected manually with the Lokar shifter like it useta could so I quickly determined it must be the gooey neutral safety switch, cause the earlier two plug ones had the plugs silliconed or glued in and usually they would break if you tried to divorce them here I was trying to take the plug off of one of the wire connectors in order to clean it, but not even with my specialized tool could I remove the pins, no way no how |
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I had no choice but to fork over $30 bucks to AMAZON for new plugulators
hind sight, I should have done did this when I first did the enjin swap! |
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Re: Restoring Rusty
naturally we will be replacing the Multi Language Profanity generator aka MLP Switch as well as it is covered in Gorilla snot having seen better days
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Re: Restoring Rusty
so the new neutral safety switch for the 4L60e and the pig tails showed up
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Re: Restoring Rusty
and it looks like they plugulate nicely
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So help me understand. You decided to fix some stuff while you were in there that wasn't really broken but could be better. And in order to fix it you had to break it and now that it's broken you have to unbroke it. Is that about right?
If so, I can sympathize and wish you luck. Last edited by LT7A; 04-03-2021 at 02:07 PM. |
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when splicing in a new pig tail I like to cut my wires in staggered formation to offset the joins and keep my wiring harness from looking like an anaconda that just swallowed a bunny rabbit whole
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and just like that we got our gear selector reading proper gears again, upper right hand corner of my super awesome (pronounced: expensive) gauge
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Well great, no sooner do I fix that, and now I have to deal with a clicking solenoid I recon, more as the news develops
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Re: Restoring Rusty
I learned this as well.
For those that try to unplug the shift indicator switch on the trans, the plugs are "glued" in for some reason. I figure some one at GM thought they should keep contaminates out. I learned that if you heat the switch with a heat gun or blow drier, the plugs will release. This will have to be done each time you unplug as the glue will adhere once the plugs are inserted. Gregski found the easiest way of all. Replace with a non-glued switch and plugs.
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Interestingly my 2004 swap has the newer style larger single plugulator on this switch, and GM must have ran out of glue for those, cause it seems to go in and out freely |
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so I managed to hook up my laptop with HP Tuners on it and use a feature in the Scanner called Controls & Special Functions which allows you to click things off and on on demand in hopes of figuring out which one of the transmission solenoids is doing all the loud clicking
and I must admit with the key in the on position and the truck not running, both 1-2 and the 2-3 solenoids sound exactly the same I also drove around with each one disabled at a time to see if the clicking goes away, and it does with both, but I think the 1-2 solenoid is the bad one, as I don't think we'll ever shift from second to third if the 1-2 solenoid is disabled type a thing if you got experience with this stuff please help a brother out, I aint an automagical transmission expert by any means Last edited by Gregski; 04-07-2021 at 11:37 AM. |
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Cool that you have that diagnostic capability and I hope it indicates the problem. Sorry that I am no help.
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Re: Restoring Rusty
yeah I'm pretty sure we need to replace the transonamission solenoid, so I decided to check my camber instead
we always air them up to some consistent pressure at all four corners, I went 35 PSI today |
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then I decided that the good ol' analog Cambermatic 300 just was not cutting it any longer
shown here reporting an absurd amount of negative camber on the texter side of the rig, don't get me wrong it's accurate but it reads in "bubbles" and not in degrees |
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Re: Restoring Rusty
so it was time to whittle a new tool (not my idea I seen this on the InterWebs)
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Re: Restoring Rusty
you know me and rounded corners on my brackets, well that's how I do on custom tools as well...
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