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Not a good idea. Not saying it hasn't been done, or that you can't get away with it, just that it isn't a good idea. It won't really clean it out well either. A converter is like a centrifuge, the centrifugal force created by the rotation causes the debris you'd want to flush to accumulate on and stick to the shell of the converter, and it won't easily rinse out. Honestly, converter flushing machines don't really do that great a job either. And NOTHING cleans like fresh clean hot ATF. Meaning that the new fluid will loosen any debris or junk left behind by flushing.
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Well not a good idea...BUT IF!!!!
If it was a converter that had been run in a trans. To just clean out dirt or CARDBOARD, from shipping, you can run a little brakeleen and air and a vaccuum cleaner to suck any and all little pieces out. I KNOW that is what this is all about. Alan, you are correct on a converter that has been run, but this stab is at me for a converter that got a little carboard in it after ups knocked the cap off in the box. After contacting Rusty at TCS and he instructed me to clean out with a vaccuum cleaner nozzle and some high pressure air and brakeleen after first sucking it out dry. When I asked Rusty about building another, it was HE that told me what to do, and told me it was NOT necessary. So Frank, you are welcome to call and contact him if you please....928-453-4020 ask for Rusty. This was done with me watching and I was on phone with Rusty the whole time. He was insistant, not to mention pissed, at UPS for their treatment of the package. And today we have changed the hub cover with a ball cover. It will protect the hub , even in storage cases when you might be storing the converter for awhile. It was NOT gasoline or solvent. That would not be a good idea... And it was vaccuumed out the whole time.
Bruce
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If it was a converter that had been run in a trans. To just clean out dirt or CARDBOARD, from shipping, you can run a little brakeleen and air and a vaccuum cleaner to suck any and all little pieces out. I KNOW that is what this is all about. Alan, you are correct on a converter that has been run, but this stab is at me for a converter that got a little carboard in it after ups knocked the cap off in the box. After contacting Rusty at TCS and he instructed me to clean out with a vaccuum cleaner nozzle and some high pressure air and brakeleen after first sucking it out dry. When I asked Rusty about building another, it was HE that told me what to do, and told me it was NOT necessary. So Frank, you are welcome to call and contact him if you please....928-453-4020 ask for Rusty. This was done with me watching and I was on phone with Rusty the whole time. He was insistant, not to mention pissed, at UPS for their treatment of the package. And today we have changed the hub cover with a ball cover. It will protect the hub , even in storage cases when you might be storing the converter for awhile. It was NOT gasoline or solvent. That would not be a good idea... And it was vaccuumed out the whole time.
Bruce
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Well I'm glad it got worked out between you and Rusty, he's not the customer. I was told the converter was going to be REPLACED per the phone conversation I had with Mark. A phone call, email, anything letting me know the converter was fine and just need to be cleaned out would have sufficed, did I get that ? No, I got shipped a newly painted converter, smelling like solvent, that I had shipped back to you 12 days prior. Nothing else. Would this kind of treatment meet your "expectations" ?
Was your name or company mentioned in my post ? That would be a stab. Its an honest question since I WAS planning on getting started putting it in tonight. Last I checked you guys close at 5:30 pm.
I still have a 1 yr. warranty and a free restall, don't I ?
Was your name or company mentioned in my post ? That would be a stab. Its an honest question since I WAS planning on getting started putting it in tonight. Last I checked you guys close at 5:30 pm.
I still have a 1 yr. warranty and a free restall, don't I ?
Well, my reply was written with a USED converter in mind. Since the original post made no mention of a new converter, my response was geared towards a used converter. As such, my reply has little or no bearing on the real matter at hand.
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Originally posted by 1BADDAM
Was your name or company mentioned in my post ? That would be a stab. Its an honest question since I WAS planning on getting started putting it in tonight. Last I checked you guys close at 5 ?
:30 pm.
I still have a 1 yr. warranty and a free restall, don't I ?
Yes you still have the one restall and 1 year. Not an issue. As far as notifing you, well, maybe we should have called but right now we are busy as hell and to get your converter to you and back up and running was our main objective. Not a big issue and I wanted Alan to know we were talking about a brand new converter not one that someone had backyard flushed with some chemical. IWe cleaned it with a vaccuum and you should be just fine. Not a big deal. Run it. You will be fine.
