Transmission shop near Yakima? (or Puyallup)

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I'm feeling the Oil burners IDI love. Making memories......

Over half way there but stopped for the night already. Can't do anything until Monday really anyway for finding parts. Traffic might not be too bad either for the remaining 75 miles or so at 10-11 in the morning. I can't say that it feels like Lucas has done anything but I haven't lost 3rd yet still, and temperatures and rpms (guessing, no tach) are fine. Still delaying but perhaps very slightly less? Hard to say.
 

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Just put in another Ferlin Husky 8 track and drive on! You're "looking at the world through a windshield". ( That's a trucker song from the early 80's for those who aren't initiated)
 

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The hardest thing to get may be the torque converter.

These are factory shipped no matter where you order from online and it's a two week wait just for it to ship:

 

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Huh, the torque converter itself is a geographic oddity......2weeks from everywhere....but you'll be crashing with Nero! Making memories..... we're going to want selfies covered with burnt tranny fluid!
 
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Huh, the torque converter itself is a geographic oddity......2weeks from everywhere....but you'll be crashing with Nero! Making memories..... we're going to want selfies covered with burnt tranny fluid!

I'm not sure but we might just be just putting in one that's already rebuilt? Or having them rebuild a core, so it can minimize the actual downtime of the trans? Not 100% sure.

The only thing from the old trans I'd want is the cheap chromw aftermarket pan (for the drain bolt), although it really does need a magnet. The old OEM pan didn't have a magnet in it either. I guess whoever serviced the trans in the past stole the magnet? Although if I were to go to an aluminum pan, there wouldn't be a magnet anyway.

I might opt for that $150 Summit Racing aluminum pan. Every bit of extra cooling may help.
 

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In highschool I always smelled like burnt tranny fluid. I haven't built a transmission in a long time but any time I smell burnt ATF I travel back to a simpler time, building transmissions in shop class...... making my teachers a small fortune.... and getting decent grades myself.....
 

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I'm not sure if the original would have had a magnet. Not all older tranny's did.

Well it had been into before, so it's possible someone forgot to put it back after cleaning the pan. It had a 4WD style filter in the stock/non-deep pan.
 

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Oh and the other thing I might go ahead and do.... is put the GVOD on. It might not be hard to find an old 176" WB driveshaft around the Portland area. If I have to rent a uhaul pickup to go get it and have it shortened, that won't be too much extra expense. If I don't do it now, I dunno when I'll have a good chance again. Might skip wiring it up, since it'll just be a pass-through driveshaft without power, I can do that myself later on easily.
 
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The hardest thing to get may be the torque converter.

These are factory shipped no matter where you order from online and it's a two week wait just for it to ship:
If it really came down to it, I could probably swap you convertors. I could ship mine out there and you could ship yours to me. The down side to that is that I don't think mine's a towing convertor. I'd have to check tomorrow.
 

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Yep. No better time than now. It may be tighter than you like on money, but at least it will only have to be down once.

Shouldn't be any worse than it was going to be, paying shop labor now and also later for the GV. And it'll give me savings on fuel sooner. Might take a week or more to get the yoke, deep sump, etc however
 

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