How much metal flake is too much?
Ended up tearing the whole thing apart. There’s no way it would’ve ever worked right. Metal chunks everywhere.
I think they mostly came from the one way sprag in the back of transmission.
Luckily the tail shaft looks fine. I found a 2wd 727 out of an 81 pickup for dirt cheap and am almost done rebuilding it with basic rebuild kit from Cope Racing Transmissions and the tail shaft and housing from my original 4x4 transmission.
The “new” transmission looks great on the inside, I probably didn’t need to rebuild it, but I already had the rebuild kit so I might as well while I’m in there.
The picture on the right is the original trans with the eat up sprag. All of the roller bearings and springs were ruined too. Any idea what caused that to happen?
Ended up tearing the whole thing apart. There’s no way it would’ve ever worked right. Metal chunks everywhere.
I think they mostly came from the one way sprag in the back of transmission.
Luckily the tail shaft looks fine. I found a 2wd 727 out of an 81 pickup for dirt cheap and am almost done rebuilding it with basic rebuild kit from Cope Racing Transmissions and the tail shaft and housing from my original 4x4 transmission.
The “new” transmission looks great on the inside, I probably didn’t need to rebuild it, but I already had the rebuild kit so I might as well while I’m in there.
The picture on the right is the original trans with the eat up sprag. All of the roller bearings and springs were ruined too. Any idea what caused that to happen?
