Tonight....WE WRENCH!!!!

[Frank Z]

Someone had already taken parts out of the kit that was on the shelf at the parts house. New kit should be here in the AM.

 

[mcantar18c]

That sucks

 

[YELLAHEEP]

Jeezus Frank....... Really? Ya can't even get a complete rebuild kit???? :banghead:

Ok, so to summarize.......
-Van goes bang, ya believe it's the trans.
-Go to junk yard and get replacement trans.
-Swap parts between transmissions in order to make one good one.
-Take old trans in for core deposit refund.
-Install trans only to discover its the grenaded rear axle.
-Get replacement rear axle installed.
-Drive van for 3 days....... replacement trans craps out.
-Wishing you still had original trans to swap back in.
-Pull trans for rebuild to discover rebuild kit is incomplete..............

Fair to say enough is enough yet?

 

[ColoradoRaptor]

Frank is the great grandson of the famous Murphy who has that law........:gee:

 

[Frank Z]

Geeze Troy, you make it all sound so...
so....

ummmm...

negative.


I'm looking at the brightside, I get to....er....


Yeah.....I'm pretty much fooked.
:rattle:

 

[xj-grin]

Jeezus Frank....... Really? Ya can't even get a complete rebuild kit???? :banghead:

Ok, so to summarize.......
-Van goes bang, ya believe it's the trans.
-Go to junk yard and get replacement trans.
-Swap parts between transmissions in order to make one good one.
-Take old trans in for core deposit refund.
-Install trans only to discover its the grenaded rear axle.
-Get replacement rear axle installed.
-Drive van for 3 days....... replacement trans craps out.
-Wishing you still had original trans to swap back in.
-Pull trans for rebuild to discover rebuild kit is incomplete..............

Fair to say enough is enough yet?

AND, within the same 24 hour period:

- XJ Tranny goes wacky and imobile;
- Stratus take a shite. again.
- Frank wacks his noggin at the steel yard;
- Frank has a yard long steel shard removed from his eye/brain.

I think Ira's on to something -- mods need to change frank's moniker to "Frank 'Murphy' Z"

 

[Frank Z]

I won $12 on the most recent Powerball Drawing!!

Anyone wanna buy an A/C or 12?

garage heaters? Gonna be cold soon enough.

I've got an arm and a leg left over....bargin price for both if you act now.

There are days when I'd love to just quit...everything. But then where would that leave me?

 

[ColoradoRaptor]

There are days when I'd love to just quit...everything. But then where would that leave me?

Most of us can relate my friend, quitting has crossed my mind a time or two....... but I aint quit a thing in my life........... so why start nowassgas:

 

[YELLAHEEP]

Anyone wanna buy an A/C or 12?

garage heaters? Gonna be cold soon enough.

Hey, I already tried that......... but you were worried about some stoopid permit/license thing.......

 

[Frank Z]

What a long day! Made a dent in the rebuild effort...but still have a lot to do. I cannot believe how many parts are in this damn thing...Gotta be about a brazillion or two.

We found quite a few damaged parts that need to be replaced.

I'm not gonna guesstimate a completion date...cuz I'd be wrong.

My friend told me before we got started that Ford trannies are a bitch to rebuild....I can now appreciate his perspective.

Wow.....

 

[old_man]

Man Frank, you have been having a run of crappy luck. At least yours are mechanical instead of medical. I've been hobbling around for 18 months and had two surgeries, now they want to cut again. So I understand about one thing after another. To bad you don't live closer, I would have been happy to help but the 3 hour commute kind of limits things.

I will pray for an end to the mechanical problems. Its about all I can do to help.

 

[Frank Z]

Thanks Tom,
I appreciate the sentiment.

Hope you get better soon.

 

[Frank Z]

This is what i've been working on:

And we still haven't torn the valve bodies apart yet.

 

[jdxj]

This is what i've been working on:

And we still haven't torn the valve bodies apart yet.

AHHHHHHH RUN FOREST RUN TOO MANY PARTS

 

[Frank Z]

And we took it apart completely. Un-freakin' real.

 

[Fred]

All those parts had numbers on them corresponding to the picture, right?

 

[Frank Z]

yes

 

[ColoradoRaptor]

All I can say is................ :laugh: ......... that is a LOT of parts! I hope you can keep track of that mess.... I thought I had it bad when I rebuilt a TF727. I hope your luck changes for the good soon!

 

[kastein]

holy mother of god!

you got some crappy luck there man.

Is there a manual transmission you could swap in instead?

Also this is why I am a paranoid man and do not bring in my cores until the new stuff has been running for a week or two... if ever.

 

[mcantar18c]

Is there a manual transmission you could swap in instead?

A ZF5 or ZF6 would be a damn-near direct swap, pretty simple job really.

It'd be a helluva lot easier to just drop a ZF trans in and forget about it... but it's be cheaper to just rebuild the E4OD....