Automatic Transmission Valve Body removal - 4L60E Shift Kit
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GM 4L60E Transmission Rebuild DVD: Valve Body - Removal
The first step to installing a Automatic Transmission Shift Kit is to remove the transmission pan and Valve Body that is located inside the pan.
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4L60E Rebuild In your Driveway: Car Truck Van Automatic Transmission 700R4
I completely rebuild and R&R the 4L60E in my Camaro Z-28 4th. Gen, LT-1 with minimal tools! Right in my driveway. Can it be done? DIY
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I suppose I should mention what led up to the rebuilding of this unit. I entered a burnout contest with the car, Not so smart of a thing to do. Anyway something changed then. And a while later on a trip to Tacoma, she gave out on I-5. I nursed her another 300 or so miles back home, slipping badly. Fortunately I didn't have to climb any hills.
See the burnout vid here: http://youtu.be/Vgo-LVotuS4
Turbo Hydra-Matic 400 Transmission shift modification
In this vid the process of removing the spring from under the front accumulator piston is demonstrated. This modification yields a firmer second to third shift.
Manual Torque Converter lock-up switch.
Installed a switch to lock-up my torque Converter from 2nd gear up!!!! Works for build date of 09-95 and down.
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700R4 Throttle Valve Upgrade
I've learned a lot over the winter rebuilding my Chevy automatic transmissions. Thanks a bunch to Michelle for letting me take over the basement all winter and putting up with the musk of burnt tranny fluid. I feel much better about my automatic Astro van now, knowing I can fix the transmission, should I burn it out. Before it was like "when's this trans going to go?" and I would always be on the look out for a new van, or have a back up truck ready to go. Now I will have a back up automatic transmission built and ready to install.
I didn't really film the rebuilding, cause honestly I didn't know what I was doing, and it took about 6 months, hour here, hour there. Next one I will film, with short cuts, to show what you most likely get with a $800 rebuild.
I did a few mods to the automatic transmission to make it hold up better towing the 4500lb electrical trailer. Those mods are going to cost me more work on the install, because I will have to mess about pulling the governor, and modifying the governor, to get the shift rpms back to where they were before the higher pressures and bigger valves. I have 2 videos covering the mods I did here.
700R4 Problems
My start at being my own transmission mechanic, hasn't gone well. I tried to give a little more life to my old transmission, by giving it bigger serveros, to put more pressure on the burnt clutches. I screwed that up, it was very difficult to get the servo in, wile the transmission was in the van. I have now "sanded out" the damage I caused in the servo bore, and put the original servo back in. The new servo will just be in the new transmission.
I will now ride out the transmission in the van, until I lose third and fourth, next spring or summer I am hoping, or maybe when I get my garage built. (I now have spousal permission to build a real garage w heat :-)). I got an 84 transmission, that also needs a rebuild, for $100. The newest transmission I can use is 92, and that's 20 years old. I figured I would rebuild whatever I get. There is too many scammers out there that want $1000 for their "rebuilt" transmission. Most of them haven't even cleaned the thing, what is to say its "rebuilt", and its not rebuilt the way I want anyway.
So this is a video of the servo screw up and the start of the rebuild of my 84 transmission. Parts are on there way. Although the 85-92 trans was better than 84 this one will be built for towing, and a future diesel conversion, better than anything 20 years old.
Automatic Transmission Valve Body Teardown - 4L60E Shift Kit
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GM 4L60E Transmission Rebuild DVD: Valve Body - Teardown
Working thru the valve body webbing, Rick goes over a proper tear down of the valve body, including the forward accumulator and solenoids. This is key to preparing for the repair or adding a shift kit to your 4L60E Transmission.
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FTI Torque Converters Part 1; How to make a Torque Converter
wwww.mudlifemagazine.com; PART 1 of our visit to FTI Torque Converters and Transmissions in Deland, FL. This video sheds some light on a leader in the driveline world and shows the manufacturing process, step by step, on how to make a race ready torque converter!
200R4 vs. 700R4
Mad Dog Lou from Mad Dog Transmissions talks about the difference between a 200R4 and 700R4!