Grease Monkey Garage

[redline4]

This project is going to drive you to drinking.

It's the crap like this plus dealing with the every day dumb shît that rolls in at work that's made this a 24 year project..

Looks like that box has seen a few sets of hands and been taped back together a couple times.

Very much so.
Some of the holes in the box have been taped, some are new.

 

[redline4]

Got a response from Holley.
Evidently the crossmember is "vendor supplied", so they can't just send me the missing part.
They will be shipping me a new box with hopefully all the stuff and I have to send this back.
And no word on where my other shìt is.

 

[jacob j.]

Got a response from Holley.
Evidently the crossmember is "vendor supplied", so they can't just send me the missing part.
They will be shipping me a new box with hopefully all the stuff and I have to send this back.
And no word on where my other shìt is.

That sounds about right for Holley these days. They've gotten too big for their own good.

 

[stretch5881]

After lots of swearing, lifting the engine in and out, lifting the trans in and out, I came to the conclusion the adapters, mounts and such just won't be happy in this 67.
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It's my understanding that the 66, 67's offer plenty of frustrations on the LS swap other years do not.
That being said, I've read multiple instances where the Hooker Blackheart LS swap kit works perfectly.
So....
I just dropped the cash on their adapter plates, clamshell engine mounts, urethane inserts, trans mount and trans crossmember.....

If it works I guess I'll try to sell the adapter plates and various mounts I currently have sitting here.

Holley gave 0 tracking info on my order.
Today the trans crossmember showed up.
Missing one of the braces..
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Called their customer service.
Closed of course.
Sent them an email.
I guess I'll see how they respond.
#startingtogetseriouslypissed

Just thinking Ed, if the new engine mounts aren't any better, you could unbolt the mounts from the frame and put the mounts together on the engine. Block the powertrain where you want it. Fab some steel wedges (shims) for between the frame and the mounts. Tack the shims and frame mount to the frame. Pull the powertrain out one last time to weld in the frame mounts. A little cleanup and paint.

 

[redline4]

Just thinking Ed, if the new engine mounts aren't any better, you could unbolt the mounts from the frame and put the mounts together on the engine. Block the powertrain where you want it. Fab some steel wedges (shims) for between the frame and the mounts. Tack the shims and frame mount to the frame. Pull the powertrain out one last time to weld in the frame mounts. A little cleanup and paint.

Or I'll notch the frame.
That's all last resort.

 

[redline4]

My wife texted and said UPS delivered a package from Holley.
Then sent me the picture



Wonderful.

 

[jacob j.]

My wife texted and said UPS delivered a package from Holley.
Then sent me the picture

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Wonderful.

It looks like they're routing your packages through Venezuela.

 

[redline4]

It looks like they're routing your packages through Venezuela.

That's after using a wood chipper as a package sorting device.

 

[stretch5881]

My wife texted and said UPS delivered a package from Holley.
Then sent me the picture

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Wonderful.

Hopefully all the parts are in there.

 

[redline4]

The beat to hell box had all the crossmember components in it.
Zero word on where the rest of my ordered stuff is.

There must be something to everything related to automotive drawing in the most inept people, myself included, as their career choice.

I sometimes think if I went over to the grocery store next to where I work and stuck my head in their revolving door it would be more productive.

 

[davidwyby]

@redline4 halp! My son is under his friends burb in a parking lot. Shift cable eye to trans shift arm bushing poofed. Cheesy Little double snap in thingy. None from the parts store seem to fit. I’ve never forked with with stuff that new…dealer only maybe? Male white plastic bushing taper is a hair big for the eye.

 

[davidwyby]

Meh, nvm

 

[Yukon Stihl]

@redline4 halp! My son is under his friends burb in a parking lot. Shift cable eye to trans shift arm bushing poofed. Cheesy Little double snap in thingy. None from the parts store seem to fit. I’ve never forked with with stuff that new…dealer only maybe? Male white plastic bushing taper is a hair big for the eye.

Zip ties

 

[redline4]

@redline4 halp! My son is under his friends burb in a parking lot. Shift cable eye to trans shift arm bushing poofed. Cheesy Little double snap in thingy. None from the parts store seem to fit. I’ve never forked with with stuff that new…dealer only maybe? Male white plastic bushing taper is a hair big for the eye.

It's part of the shift cable. Not available separately as far as I know.
The taper on the lever of the trans wears, ir up here rusts, and won't hold the cable sometimes as well.
And sometimes it needs both..

 

[redline4]

New mounts and brackets on.
Engine set in.
Steering hits worse than before.
Pan is tight to the frame.
Bellowing is even further from clearing the tunnel than it was.
I guess that was a bad investment...
Engine is coming back out tomorrow. I'm going to notch the frame where it's contacting, set it back in and reevaluate the tunnel.
Not real happy right now, and I'm not sure why I read multiple articles about how this all drops in with no issues yet I can't even come close.

 

[stretch5881]

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New mounts and brackets on.
Engine set in.
Steering hits worse than before.
Pan is tight to the frame.
Bellowing is even further from clearing the tunnel than it was.
I guess that was a bad investment...
Engine is coming back out tomorrow. I'm going to notch the frame where it's contacting, set it back in and reevaluate the tunnel.
Not real happy right now, and I'm not sure why I read multiple articles about how this all drops in with no issues yet I can't even come close.

The cars from the 70s and earlier were not put together identical. I learned that measuring diagonals between 2 cars that were the same but the measurements were off. A friend pointed out "That's why so many parts have slotted holes on American cars". The kit likely worked well on the car that it was mocked up on.
We were lucky in the old days. We could easily mod a steel pan.
Fab your own frame mounts?
I wish things worked out better for you but AM body and frame parts rarely do.

 

[LAWN BOY]

While we are on the topic of shift cables, the shift cable went bad on my dad’s *s-wordbox 2004 Chevy Colorado recently, to get to work for 3 days he resorted to pulling the cable up thru the floor and pulling on it and stuff by handle to shift. Then I helped him fix it and brought the part up to his part of the state. Shifts smooth as butter now.

 

[LAWN BOY]

Welp, we’ll be taking the E4oD trans out of our F250 for the 5th damn time.
I installed a new gas tank strap on my Silverado 2500 last week, the old one rusted off.

 

[Steve]

Welp, we’ll be taking the E4oD trans out of our F250 for the 5th damn time.
I installed a new gas tank strap on my Silverado 2500 last week, the old one rusted off.

Why have you pulled the transmission 5 times now?

 

[LAWN BOY]

Why have you pulled the transmission 5 times now?

I don’t remember exactly because it was 1 and 2 summers ago we did the first 4 times and we work on so much other stuff, but the first time we replaced just the torque converter, it was incorrect.
Second time replaced torque converter with right one and also replaced flex plate which we had to drill and extra hole in.
3rd time we had to have it partially rebuilt.
4th time we realized it needed a full rebuild.
Now it won’t shift from 2nd and shifts so dang hard still. Overdrive bands need replacing so that’s why we have to take it out a 5th time. Also going to replace shift back solenoid. Might just buy a brand new transmission instead tho. Considering swapping to manual. We have so many problems and so do auto parts stores helping us because this truck was built out of 3 trucks by the previous owner who was a red neck farmer.