Re: IML: Eileen front end Update

[Jason Wulf <jrwulf@xxxxxxxxx>]

I wonder, would it be possible for you to take the tranny from the
parts car somewhere, and have it benched?

Hell, is something like that even possible?

My thought is this:  Gonna rebuild a tranny?  Do the one from the
parts car.  You've got now, what I assume is at least a partially
working transmission.  This is better than no transmission.  Rebuild
the one that you don't know about, and then you have one you know
(hopefully..) is good.  If something happens, you've got a spare then
you can swap out while you get the first one fixed.  I appreciate what
a bear it is to swap a tranny, but then at least you have two parts
that you know about, instead of one good one and still one that's just
and unknown.

-Jason

On Apr 10, 2005 8:09 PM, Steve B. <imperial59@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> >My father and I went the route ourselves back in 1967 on my mother's
> '60 Imperial. It was very low miles but the >ozone in L.A. ruined the
> car. It took us 11 weeks and over $600.00 (1967 dollars) in parts and
> tools to do the >>>job ourselves. NEVER AGAIN.
> 
> I'm not complaining about it.  I have very much enjoyed the process and
> learned a lot more about my car.  The joy of owning them to me is
> working on them.  I've been through several cars that I got all fixed up
> and then was bored with them so I sold them.  Eileen has actually been
> around longer than any car I have ever owned and I think that is because
> there are so damn many things wrong with her that I can't get bored  :-)
> 
> I have done a better cosmetic job than most shops would do.  I took all
> the parts down to bare metal and repainted them.  No more greasey mess
> under there.
> 
> Next project is the transmission.  I have three options
> #1  Put in the unknown trans from the parts car and see what happens
> #2  Have the trans rebuilt
> #3  Rebuild the transmission myself.
> 
> I'm a little afraid of transmissions mostly because it is so dang much
> trouble to take them out and put them back in if you make a mistake so I
> am currently leaning toward having it rebuilt but only time will tell!
> 
>                       Steve B.
> 
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