Not to be a downer, but cleaning transmissions up just for the sake of having them nice and clean stored away is a really bad idea.
All the grease and oil protect the aluminum from oxidation and a power washer will get water in places you don't want it to. Once the innards rust they are junk.
Unless you plan to tear it apart the next day, don't be cleaning transmissions up. It's a bad idea!
Now, for those that will say what does he know?
I have been around Vedder's Transmission in Spencer, Indiana for 45 years. I worked there on and off for about 10 years in my youth.
If there was a way possible someone could screw up a transmission, or hearing about someone screwing up a transmission I have knowledge about some great ones people have done.
This goes along the lines of not sandblasting rear end housings, engine blocks, and transmission cases, or anything that has bearings in it with sand.
Yet it's done everyday and everyday bearings are replaced from it.
I wish you luck with your clean transmission, but personally now you really need to take it apart soon.
Tom
All the grease and oil protect the aluminum from oxidation and a power washer will get water in places you don't want it to. Once the innards rust they are junk.
Unless you plan to tear it apart the next day, don't be cleaning transmissions up. It's a bad idea!
Now, for those that will say what does he know?
I have been around Vedder's Transmission in Spencer, Indiana for 45 years. I worked there on and off for about 10 years in my youth.
If there was a way possible someone could screw up a transmission, or hearing about someone screwing up a transmission I have knowledge about some great ones people have done.
This goes along the lines of not sandblasting rear end housings, engine blocks, and transmission cases, or anything that has bearings in it with sand.
Yet it's done everyday and everyday bearings are replaced from it.
I wish you luck with your clean transmission, but personally now you really need to take it apart soon.
Tom
