Trans rebuild?

Bill as the guys said the time consuming part is the clean up. Torqueflites are without a doubt the easiest auto trans to do so disassembly and reassembly is a breeze. Figure on replacing every wear item if you want it to perform it's best and last a long time. www.bulkparts.com is the cheapest place I've found to buy good parts. Just make sure you get everything like thrust washers, bushings, both bands, all clutches and steels and a complete seal kit and filter. Also check and see what front band lever you have and if it's less than 3.8 replace it with a 4.2 and make sure your front clutch has at least 12 springs in it. Doing this will ensure neck snapping shifts without overlap.

BTW: Which book do you have? Reason I ask is because a factory type service manual is ok for a stock type rebuild but for performance it leaves allot on the table. There's a book out by Carl munroe that's light yrs ahead of the factory manual.

Here's a link to it on E-bay but you can find it allot of other places too

http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-Torqueflite...=39:1|66:2|65:1|240:1318&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

If you run into any problems shoot me a pm and I'll send you my ph #. I've rebuilt about 100 for performance and daily use. Tracy

Oh yeah figure 8-12 hrs. to do one right. Some guys say they can do one in 4-5 hrs but I can tell you there taking allot of shortcuts to get it done that fast.