Overdrive said goodbye

[bad_4dr_sho]

haha my overdrive in my 99 sho said laters,its been giving me problems since early december kicking in and out. but it finally left at the end of febuary.so Im sending it off next week to get rebuilt.I was able to get my hands on one of the TransGo shift kits. just beefer parts from what I read no drilling into the valve body. I've been trying to get one of the 2200 - 2600 stall torque converters from sho bros garage.I know they closed down,but I emailed him and he told me it would be easier to ask my tranny shop to get one(?)! thats weird. I called the guy from North East SHO. he said that was a scam Sho Bros never had torque converters for the cars. So my question is does anybody know where I can find a converter for this car? and whats the round about price on a rebuild for this tranny.thanks again

 

[SHOtime2511]

maybe Todd can chime in here,he worked(s) in a tranny shop.
id be sure to get a badass transcooler and some bigger lines!

 

[SuperchargedSHOguy]

You can have work done to your stock torque convertor to beef it up. There is a place by me that specializes in solely that and is like $150 to build up.

 

[pascofan92]

Hey 4dr where do you get the transGo shift kits and will they work with the stock TC and tranny components?---Alaric

 

[38SHO]

Chris has the best idea

I don't know of anyone here who customized converters, that said I"ve never looked either

I also don't know of any manufactuers who make a higher stall converter like that

ask SuperchargedSHoguy for more info... this is your best bet... and for 150 bucks.. thats a smokin deal

your old converter is fine, you don't need to get a new one and then have it modified, just modify the one you have now

seriously I'd never change a taurus converter on my own Taurus, they just don't have problems like some other transmissions do

if they break, they break and don't work like a switch... your car will stop moving... the shaft that goes to the pump has a sprocket type deal inside the converter and that can strip out..... thats about the only issues they have... unless it devolped a leak on a weld.... if its not leaking.. and the car still moves at all in any gears... keep that old converter and save your money

my 2 cents

 

[K-Dawg]

I think SHOSource sells a converter.

 

[SHO-NUF93]

Chris has the best idea



your old converter is fine, you don't need to get a new one and then have it modified, just modify the one you have now

seriously I'd never change a taurus converter on my own Taurus, they just don't have problems like some other transmissions do

if they break, they break and don't work like a switch... your car will stop moving... the shaft that goes to the pump has a sprocket type deal inside the converter and that can strip out..... thats about the only issues they have... unless it devolped a leak on a weld.... if its not leaking.. and the car still moves at all in any gears... keep that old converter and save your money

my 2 cents

That's just not a good idea. Besides converters trapping 'junk' from a dead tranny, there's a clutch plate in them, too. IMO, I'd never use an old converter in a new tranny...just as I'd never put in a new tranny without at least flushing the trans cooler. Speaking from experience...

 

[SuperchargedSHOguy]

That's just not a good idea. Besides converters trapping 'junk' from a dead tranny, there's a clutch plate in them, too. IMO, I'd never use an old converter in a new tranny...just as I'd never put in a new tranny without at least flushing the trans cooler. Speaking from experience...

Which part is not a good idea? If you are talking about mine you are a fool. They take your current and pretty much rebuild it. They cut it apart and you can do whatever you want to it. Kevlar clutches, anti balloon, you name it and then they reweld it back together and it is better than new.

Also, 38SHO knows from transmission experience as do I as we both had done automatic transmission rebuilding in the past for a living.

 

[bryantaylor]

Rod is talking about putting back it the same USED TQ. not haveing the old one rebuilt and then installed with the new trans.

 

[38SHO]

i've done it on my taurus'(2) before lol

I beat the **** out of them and I've only blown one... and thats cause I ran it out of fluid by about 2 gallons.........

seriously I know what I'm talking about here, if u think magically that you put in an old converter on a new rebuild that it messes it up.... you are very very very very mistaken lol


also, just like a cooler flusher, they make torque converter flushers, actually ours is the same damn machine.........


why do u think the converter is some magical piece that automatically wears out when the rest of the tranny does? it only does a couple jobs, and if it does the jobs properly there is nothing wrong with it.....

now on a dodge I'd change it cause they have issues with torque converter linings comming apart.. **** even reman ones do it in a day or two after you install them sometimes... and that sucks when that happens


tell me what wears out in a converter? its 97% metal, thats like saying you need to replace your transmission case every rebuild....

 

[SHO-NUF93]

I guess I misunderstood. Cutting it open is a different story. I'm no transmission expert by any means, I'm used to doing R+I type stuff, as far as transmissions go. I didn't say they wore out. I know it's nothing but a steel drum with blades arranged in it. I said they can trap garbage from a tranny that ate itself, I am correct in that assumption, right? I have seen a couple nasty failures. It makes sense to me now they have machines to flush them...it didn't occur to me at first, I'm slow The closest thing I have to that is a T-Tech machine.

 

[38SHO]

get a good inline filter on your tranny lines

take your converter to a shop and have them flush it............

you'll be alright

you might not even have any metal in your transmission...............
it can break and not even have a spec in the pan

 

[SuperchargedSHOguy]

I always get all my convertors rebuilt solely because it is cheap and I have them all beefed up for obvious purposes. Todd, even the 94 convertor was beefed up.

 

[bad_4dr_sho]

yea I talked to the tranny shop,I'm going to send the converter out and get it beefed up. along with the shift kit (which alaric I got from transmissionpartsusa.com) Its should be better than what I had before. All the tranny does is shift in and out of overdrive until the tranny warms up and then overdrive is out for good, until it cools back down. but im still going to have them go through the whole tranny. the shift kit requires a tear down anyways to put all of the parts in it. I figured I passed the 60k mile life expectancy of the transmission. I just hit 100,000 so I'll do it right the first time. thanks guys like always for the help