!!!BUY THIS BOOK!!! ??

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Got mine today. I'm already learning from it. Great photos like you guys said. Has all the missing information that the, Torqueflight 727 Transmission Handbook by Carl Monroe ,does not have. Which is a good book to also have in your library
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Thanks Tom.
and he autographed it for me.

( How did you get Allison to help you? I could not even get him to help me at the many swap meets, car shows, National events whatever I saw him at, to do business with lovable me. That's why I have been using John Cope of CRT, for my Transmission needs.)
 
Rebuilt the 727 in my dads old lil red express. I only used the book for torque specs and the band adjustments. We layed out kraft paper in the garage along one wall and dissassembled and layed the parts out in the order of dissassembly. When reassembling a trick if you have stuff that has to stick to stay together on reassembly. Do not use grease, use vaseline. It melts at a much lower temp. Will not clog the valve body ports. I had rebuilt 2 mopar 3 speed transaxles prior to that. Other than the differential portion being part of the trans, the internals are very similar just a little smaller. There is one piston type valve in the case that can be accidentally installed upside down. So make drawings of all of those when pulling them out of the case and put the back the same way. If not when it shifts into second gear it will also engage reverse and smoke the trans. I may still buy one of these books as i love tech pubs. And have a library of em at my fingertips on a shelf above my workbench
 
It does but again, someone can get creative with something as simple as a floor jack and a piece of steel pipe for that one.

Working at my dads house in a gated retirement community doing his trans i had no access to my tools as i live half way cross country from him. We took the drum and seals to this little trans rebuild place that we payed to rotoclean the transmission case for him after we took it apart. The shop owner popped it in his press, swapped the seals in about a minute. Said here ya go no charge. I handed him a $20 anyways and said go buy lunch for you and your employee. It was worth the $20 to me anyways.
 
Tom, I’d like an autographed copy if you still have them? Let me know how you would like payed.

The other Tom
 
Just got my copy, cant wait to read it a few times just to understand the automatic trans
 
Thanks to you all.
TJPATTE, you have time to read through it? Hope it was beneficial.
Tom Hand
 
I'm at work with my copy going over it again....valve body issue - this book is GREAT!
(I know I should be working....but.....!)

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Jeff
 
Jeff,

Forget working, keep reading! I’m in suspense on your rebuild. It’s like waiting for Santa Claus. LOL
 
I bought the book, and the best part of it, is the author p m'd me here and said if I had any issues to get in contact with me and he would help me thru it.

That means alot because I have never built one.
 
Jeff,

Forget working, keep reading! I’m in suspense on your rebuild. It’s like waiting for Santa Claus. LOL
I assume you read about my mishap.....?
I'll getr' sorted out.....! Back on it Friday morning. ...

Reverse servo broke and something is up in my valve body...!

Jeff
 
Thanks to you all.
TJPATTE, you have time to read through it? Hope it was beneficial.
Tom Hand


Hi Tom,

I’ve read through the book a couple of times now and keep learning new things.

As I had PM’d when I first received the book, there are two things in the mechanical world that I truly believed to be evil, automatic transmissions and rear end gears. There is some sort of black magic that goes on in those things just waiting for some unsuspecting schmo like myself to open them up.

Over the past 35 years I have never batted an eye at ripping anything apart and putting it back together. I’ve built roundy round cars, shifter karts, rebuilt Ducati motorcycle engines (Desmodromic valve actuation) and now a drag car and never felt intimidated. My whole life I’ve owned manual transmission vehicles so have been able to avoid that one and rear ends I would take to someone, wizard, exorcist, or TV evangelist to spill virgin blood on and make right. When I decided to build the Dart I had the tranny built and the rear end gears installed by the above people. After reading posts on here and pretty much figuring out I would need to get back into the tranny at some point down the road I did some looking around. I saw the thread on Tom’s book and the great reviews and decided to give it a shot.

For anyone who thinks autos are evil, buy this book. The way Tom has laid it out with pictures and texts is the best I have ever seen in a technical publication and this includes the documentation I use on submarines. The beauty of this book is that it can bring you from the ground up (me) or act as a reference for the experienced. If your nice, he will sign it too!



Now for that rear end……..

Thanks again!

Tom P
 
Tom P, thanks for the kind words and I am impressed you fixed a desmodronic valve train. I need to go look it up now to see what it is!
Tom Hand
 
Is there a SBM book out there that’s on the same level as this? Color photos etc
 
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