Please help! I'm close, yet so far...

[labrat]

Got everything in and bolted up, engine runs great, but i still have 2 problems between me and the open road. First problem is my transmission. It's spewing fluid all over the place! It's fine when i first start it up, no leaks. Putt around the block, everythings ok. Get on it once pretty good, and it starts to flow. I have 3 trails about 4" wide all around the block leading to my driveway. I've replaced both of the cooler lines and removed and checked the dipstick o-ring (leak appears to be coming from this area) and retightened the kick down cable on my TH350. No dice. Is there anything else around here that can leak? I don't think the case is cracked, the transmission was fine before i pulled it from the donor truck. Am i missing anything here? The other problem is my starter. I have a new starter and new flywheel, but even after the starter is shimmed properly, it seems like my motor is kicking back and now the starter is grinding badly. Everything is tight, and i can't get this grind to go away. It also seems like the starter teeth are only engaging the flywheel halfway. At least the shiny part is only halfway across the flywheel. Anyone have any info on these problems? As always, any assistance is greatly appreciated!

 

Bill

(Almost there!)

[labrat]

Okay, i think i know what the tranny fluid problem is. I ran about 3 inches of the steel line out of the tranny then went to rubber hose, and i think the pressure was too much for my hose clamps and spewing onto the tranny tunnel, then dripping onto the ground from there. The problem i was having with it is that it will only leak when you are driving it, i couldn't get it to do it in the driveway. Anyway, thanks, and i'll try to get the starter figured out tomorrow

[Guest Anonymous]

Trans leak & Starter prblem:

 

You should flare your steel line where it connects to the rubber line. As trans pressure

and vibration will push the hose off the steel

line. The flare will make it difficult to come

off. Make sure your flare does not have burrs

that cut your rubber hose.

As for your starter, check the flyheel for

straightness with a dial indicator. Other things

to check are starter drive, drive yoke, solenoid

even correct starter housing.

Good Luck,

Sunny

[Kevin Shasteen]

A friend of mine once swapped a 350th from a buick into an Olds. He had the same problem-trans fluid would come out of the filler tube ater a little hwy driving...turned out the dipstick put in the trans was not the correct dipstick for that trans & he was over filling it-the trans would merely equalize inner pressures by expelling the extra fluid.

 

Your starter problem might not only be a starter problem but could be from excessively worn flywheel teeth which has now excessively worn your starter bendix...or vice-versa. If your flywheel is a used unit & the teeth are worn beyond their ability to perform...no amount of "new" starters will solve your problem...you're gonna have to replace the flywheel along w/a new starter bendix; and as stated earlier/maybe the correct starter nose-housing.

 

Also, if you purchased a "Rebuilt" starter-some rebuilders will not completely rebuild that starter; so, what you get is a starter that appears new but is actually a cleaned up version of an old starter w/a few new parts..but not completely new.

 

I once had to buy three starters before I got a good one. One starter's bendix would not engage half the time, the second starter bendix would engage but not disengage and the third starter worked just fine.

 

Kevin,

(Yea,Still an Inliner)