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For me, My camaro's have taken the sideline to a monte carlo and a mustang that are taking up my garage. The Monte needs the TH350 rebuilt and the mustang we just pulled the engine and transmission out of even though there is only 30 miles on the engine and transmission. It's a long story.

I still plan on trying to get the engine rebuilt in the camaro, but need to get some room for it first.

So what are you up to?

 

Well, it's been a bit since I have been on here, so here is the update.

This weekend my brother in law called telling me his transmission (TH350) was stuck in 2nd in his Monte. We decided to have him baby it here and we would pull the pan. When he got here a few hours later (only a 30 mile drive lol) we pulled the pan and found clutch material and metal in there. It was decided that we would just rebuild the transmission.

We pulled the transmission and started a video on the teardown, but I was tired and was forgetting all of the names of stuff (apply piston, accumulator and so on lol. Yup, it was one of those nights...) so we stopped. The next morning, I went out and pulled the pump, released the band and removed the apply piston. From there, tore it down and found the Low-Reverse clutches to be GONE.

I tell him this, and he said he was just going to get a used transmission. Yup, a wrench went flying, I was pissed. So I tossed the transmission back together, forgetting the bearing between the direct and forward drums and forgot to put the band back in there. Oh well, it cna't go anywhere anyway lol.

I also have a ford 302 sitting in my garage tore apart that we are going to be putting back together today. It has about 1.5 quarts of gas in the oil so we checked the bearings. So we have to get this back together and get a carb intake for it so that we can tune it (EPROM).

Once that is all done, I will be able to get MY cars in MY garage and change the oil on them. Which is about 3000 miles over thanks to all of this crap. Sucks when you can't even work on your own stuff.

so that is what is going on with me today. All work and no pay lol.

 

Odd, I've logged in every day since and never saw this thread!

Anyway, been a week of too much stress, not enough work done, etc. Wife's elderly parents are needing help right now so the wife has been at their home for 3 of the past 4 weeks. So I'm dealing with regular work, being Mr. Mom, and doing some of the wife's work too (she's my business partner). My F-body search has come to a screeching halt the past two weeks, which bums me out.

So my check-in is a bummer check-in, lol.

 

Hope the in-laws are okay. I know what you mean about work on top of work though.

What F-Body are you wanting?

Here is my update....

Had an interview today and got the job. Thankfully, I no longer have to carry a gun every day and I'm not banging gears either. Pay sucks, but it's close to the house and I should enjoy the work as I work to move up.

We had a mustang in my shop last night (1990 5.0) and did some work to it. Really need to put the Z back in there to make the garage happy again. It's pretty pissed about having a ford in there lmao.

Still trying to talk my Brother In Law to understand it's better to rebuild the transmission, but he still wants to buy a junkyard transmission. I keep telling him to look at that first word... And when you are dealing with a TH350, used is usually junk with the Low/Reverse clutches gone.

Well, time to get back out to the shop and put this 302 together so I can get ALL ford stuff out of there...

 

We have a rotating assembly in the 302. One step closer to getting this thing out of my garage!!!

 

And I'm back. Just finished shooting a video showing how to install a rotating assembly into a ford 302. I'm not a ford fan, but it felt good to get my hands on a torque wrench again.

 

Is everyone in a coma? POST UP!!!!!!

 

There is always a way for a site to come back. And I'm hoping this thread will help. I know it's helped on my forums.

 

As for modding the SS, I think that would be best discussed in the tech section. I know this section used to be for off topic only, or as in the case of this thread, just a place to do some catching up.

I know what you mean about dealerships, they suck most of the time. however, you can find a good one once in a while. Hope it gets better for you.

Sucks about the migraine, thankfully I have never had one of those.

It rained ALL DAY here, so I decided to clean out the "Vair Garage". This is the garage that we used to keep a 1964 Corvair Convertible in. It's storage now though.

Guess tomorrow I will clean out the other garage and start shooting some more videos. Yay for more work lmao.