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I know that I can take the snout off of the manuals and set them on end to drain. What about the autos though. Will I have to pull those completely apart?
Here's the back story.
I know that I can take the snout off of the manuals and set them on end to drain. What about the autos though. Will I have to pull those completely apart?
Holy crap that sucks! Manuals could remove the shift selector and turn them upside down to drain, fill with oil then drain to use oil to lube the next one? Were the Auto's full of oil? maybe the end cover off those?
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That's a good idea JT. I was thinking about spraying a large quantity of WD into the diff cover, but the selector would probably give a greater coverage and be easier to remove. The autos are full if I'm not mistaken. Judging by all the oil floating on top of the water yesterday, I'm guessing water displaced a fair amount of fluid from all transmissions.
sump pump
I feel your frustration having lived in a house with one for 48 years
no help draining your trans' but I'll suggest, if you're hooked up to city water supply, looking into a water driven sump pump as a back up incase your electric one fails (again) for some reason
https://www.google.ca/search?q=sump+...CcOf-wGonqewCQ
That's not a bad idea. I'll have to look into this, as we have relatively low water pressure. I could hook one of those up with no problem though.Originally Posted by Dr. Johny Dodge
remove the shift covers and pour out the milkshake. A couple gallons of the universal tractor fluid and pour into each one and drain it out, skim the water off and redo. The automatics are actually easier to just pull the pump and take the guts out and marinate everything in universal tractor fluid after draining out the water. Rubbermaid totes are your friend
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Dang. I didn't want to pull the pumps. I guess I'll do it though. I drained all the ICs and intakes today. It started raining again so it's pretty useless to really clean down there at this time.
Tough break. "the dehumidifier floated past me" - that cracked me up.
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get an old electric oven and after draining, heat one at a time to get rid of ALL the moisture.
Any moisture will do a job on the bearings.
If you thought that was funny, you should have seen me scrambling to the breaker to throw the switch for the whole house. Once I realized that it wasn't just the sump pump burning up, but every electrical appliance in the basement under water and powered on that I decided to egress the water.
That's a great point. I should pull the transmissions apart and do this right. Good times.
Sorry to hear about your tragedy.
I think you need to disassemble everything you want to save, water is very unforgiving when it comes to transmissions etc.
Best of luck!!
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I pulled apart all spare shafts today. Very happy I've decided to go this route. Water would have destroyed the shafts for sure. Lots of it trapped in between gears etc. I flipped a couple transmissions face down to drain them. They were completely full. The water did push all oil out to say the least. I couldn't believe how little trans fluid was in the auto. Tomorrow I'll attempt to get the whole transmissions apart.
I'm officially finished with this project. Some items of note are that the autos seemed to have significantly less water in the actual moving parts than the manuals. Manual transmissions held much more water in between the gears and in the shafts. The long water pump bolt which holds the tensioner is PERFECT to pull the front pump deal out of the auto transmissions if you put a flanged nut on the end and use a hammer against the face of the bellhousing.
Glad to hear things seemed to have worked out for you, sounds like you've been majorly busy!
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Thanks Paul. It's been a busy break for sure. I can't believe I have to return to work on Monday already.
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