Iv'e been reading and trying to understand what I'm doing, since I clearly have no clue.
Where do I start? Google. Then I end up at TCCoA, the home of Jerry's mod. Since he was a designer on this transmission, I'm going to say he knows what he's talking about.
4pointslow, I do want to thank you for being the voice of reason warning me not to cut lines. Much appreciated.
1. Tim and I (And many of you here I'm sure [even if you didn't say it]) thought I was going down the wrong path thinking the coolers were creating a restriction increasing my line pressure. This was obviously a symptom of me not having a clue. I'm trying to get a clue.
2. Reading that optimum trans temp is between 160-180 degree's I also opted not to add another cooler. More cooling is not necessarily better, and I'm sure climate plays a part in what we choose to do here. I already apologized to Tim for wasting his time for going out and pulling one for me.
3. I'm opting out of adding a trans oil filter. It might not be a bad idea to add one, but if there's a catastrophic trans failure, the filter is actually after the radiator and external cooler which is too bad, as they would need replacing anyway. With my current issues, I don't want to change too many things till I get the thrust bearing issue sorted out.
4. The 2 hard trans cooler lines that were cut previously by the guy that welded a mount for my inter-cooler (The lines were in the way, so he cut them thinking it wouldn't be a big deal. Well, a line did pop off once, and I did try and fail at flaring once before. Tim does have a couple of lines, so I am going to replace them and figure out another way to attach the soft lines, even if I need to attempt bending the hard line slightly. More to come on this. Hopefully I can find an easy, workable solution.
5. I'm going to move my shift pressures back to very close to factory in my tuning, except for the 2-3 shift (I'll leave it higher). This was very interesting information for me. That, and I already have a valve body that has been modified by Lentech. It is possible that there is way to much line pressure. I will need to get a gauge on the transmission once the truck is together, and can add shift pressure if everything looks ok on the line pressures.
Read the info below from TCCoA (Some of you already have, but these notes are very important to where I am currently at).
No movement on my motor yet. Its not even apart to be inspected yet. I really hope my $1000.00 pistons are salvageable. I'm not even opposed to an after market block, depending on whats found on disassembly. Dimas says hes absolutely certain that once he is done the motor will be well over 400 crank HP. He says he cant remember the last time he built s motor that only made 400 horse. He feels even with minor head porting of my TW170's he will find another 30 horse (He could feel the imperfection in the exhaust ports).
I wonder what my wife will say to me when she sees the house line of credit suddenly bulge? I might be sleeping in that truck.
