How many transmission rebuilds have you dealt with?

A pair of 700r4's when I was in high school and in love with G body's. My shop teacher specialized in gm automatics so it was cheap.

A4ld that didn't have overdrive after the rebuild so it was refunded and replaced with a c4. 

A reman 4l60e in an s10

Otherwise I'm normally a JY transmission replacement guy. I've strangely had great luck with aods and c4s 

Zero! But I'm unsure if I should be proud of that or not. I think it's more of an indication that I'm not trying hard enough.

ultraclyde said:

grover said:

Professor_Brap said:

I do all of mine myself, Im up to 10 or so.

4 47REs from 4 different trucks

3 T850s

1 TR6060

2 NV5500

 

So, where did you learn how to do this mystical art? 

 

And are you available to hire?

The internet/books/listen to old guys at the shop. 

I am available to hire. There is not much to them if you take your time and go by the book. 

I don't rebuild transmissions. I pay through the nose to have someone else do that. One th350 in a van, and a centerdiff redo in my wife's Xtype. The most I do myself is swap them out. I used to drive Mazda 323 GTX's. So, naturally, as night follows day, I have R&R'd about 6 of those. Because Mazda gave us hell-for-stout engines, and bolted them to glass gearboxes. And not gorilla glass either . No, this is special glass. The kind that breaks if you sing at it wrong.

One T56 and two TH400s.

The T56 needed 2nd and 5th syncros.  One of the TH400s had a whining pump and the other one just was really high miles and it sometimes wouldn't drop into reverse.

I also usually buy old cheap junk, but I don't keep it long enough to lose a transmission.  I did have a THM200 in an El Camino that died.  I took the pan off and saw all the destruction and just stuffed a junkyard TH350 in its place.  I wasn't going to spend money on a 200 trans.

i have a close friend that had a big cam'd 5.3 in a 2000 silverado that had the 4l60 go out, he had it rebuilt by a shop that put a warranty on it, he proceeded to go through 12 more transmissions that were covered by that warranty until the shop finally said "no more".

12? At some point, much earlier I would've expected the shop to ask what is the common denominator...

RossD said:

Zero! But I'm unsure if I should be proud of that or not. I think it's more of an indication that I'm not trying hard enough.

That or you have the mechanical sympathy required not to abuse them.