Re: [ihc] 727 Fluid leak !!URGENT!!

["Joseph Shaw, II" <josephshaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joel-

I can offer you NO help, but I will say that if you estimate this job as
only three hours, I am impressed by you period!

I can't even get a tranny out in three hours-but then again, I have no
manuals, don't have the right tools, and half of my time is spent getting
the thing to balance on two jacks that are NOT tranny jacks, and getting
myself out of the way for a "controlled" lowering of the tranny!

Good luck with it!  Sorry to hear about the terrible timing!

Michael


----- Original Message -----
From: "Joel M Brodsky" <jmbrodsky@domain.elided>
To: <ihc@domain.elided>
Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 10:26 AM
Subject: [ihc] 727 Fluid leak !!URGENT!!


> Binders,
>       I'm getting my truck ready for a week long road trip that culminates
> in the Tulare event.  My plan was to take my 76 Traveler on the trip and
> pull my Dunbar Military trailer.  Well, this morning, my plans may have
> changed.  HUGE amounts of trans fluid leaking from the area directly
around
> the band adjustment/cooling lines/shifter levers.  It's all very clean
> there now, with fresh fluid all over.  Risk of flash fire is great with
the
> truck now, so I'd like to cure this and if I have confidence, then I'll
> take it on the trip.
>
> Any ideas where this thing could be leaking?  The cooling lines are tight,
> checked them in the parking lot this AM.  I'm thinking the shifter shaft
> seals, ilke I really want to have to do THAT job.  Drain, drop valve body,
> remove linkages, replace seals, reassemble.  Looks like about 3 hours,
> right?
>
> Thanks,
>
> JoelB