Recent content by jim44

It sounds like you really know your buicks inside and out, just sucks to spend big money on parts thinking your eliminating failure points and come to find someone else up the chain is just screwing stuff up and letting them pass on to the next guy, I had a sprague come apart on gn back in 89 on...

They are not normally supposed to touch eachother as the splines on the shaft are supposed to keep it from goin to far down into the planet carrier, most ive seen are less than .o3o witch is part of the measurement for setting the shaft clearances

so 3/16 to decimal is about .1875 wich would put me about .0125 too far off the pump gear, I/ll have to find some presice washers to get the converter deeper into the pump drive closer to .125. it would seem that no one knows how to lower the charge pressure on the 200

Thanks for the reply, Looks like im going to be in the market for another forged steel crankshaft just hoped i could save it and the work looked really good, having a hard time not finding a definate reason why the thrust is being trashed in such a quick manner not even beating on the car at...

max tv in park at idle was around 70 psi

Hello, ive got a 300m input shaft from cpt installed it into the overdrive planet carrier with the snap ring and it drops down way too far to the point that it grabbed the splines on the od ring gear (about .200 between the snap ring and carrier !) i called and spoke to art and he gave me to one...

I also ran the trans coolers in parelel instead of in series, the main bearing clearance is .0015 and the rods are a .002, engine oil pressure was 65 psi cold with a low of 22 psi hot with the smallest regulator spring and hv pump. The engine block was stamped weber racing and was advertised as...

I actually did that mod as well as some other mods the second time, the old timer who welded my thrust surface up after the first failure said he worked at gm and machined the original buick crankshafts for the gn's as well as the normal 3.8's, he said he normally see's this type of damage on...

yes it does have a hole out the very end and on the side, luckily i have a valve with out the lands cut

hope this works

The converter is about .200 away from the flexplate. Just figured id post in the engine section since the engine is what gets damaged, must be over a hundred threads of people with damaged engines mainly caused by the transmission but i should put a thread in the trans section if no one lends a...

Hello all, first time poster here long time lurker, im on my second bad thrust bearing and ive narrowed it down to hydraulic pressure in the torque converter, my question is how do i eliminate high pressure on the converter ? Im seeing pressure coming out of the cooler outlet at the trans going...