Inspection of a 904 torqueflite

I am talking to him about getting his book. I also read the atsg manual twice.

The atsg Manual......it doesn’t cover worn out parts. Doesn’t much even talk about them.

It doesn’t go into flaking bands and when a bushing is worn. It just doesn’t say a whole lot. The information online...

THe threads....don’t even say a whole lot.
I’ve got more pictures of his transmission posted here than I could find in many other places. Beating the subject to death to get the slightest detail......

The output shaft doesn’t need to be replaced. None of the bushings do except the front pump. But why not replace them anyway just to get a feel for how they go in and what it takes to get them out. Just for the experience of doing so. I don’t necessarily like the look of the direct clutch bushing.

I know that I could put gaskets and seals in this transmission .....and it last many more years to come. The thrust washers show in spec and it took them a long time to get to the wear they are even at now. 126k and I will take way better care of it than the last guy that owned it that’s for sure.

We talked about earlier the steps and what needs to be replaced at minimum. That’s good....get a cheap kit and run it. I might do that.

It’s not that I think the flaking on the band is ok.....it’s...I don’t know how bad it is. I’m guessing it’s pretty bad now.

It would be great to have a 2.74 gear in there. I would like that. It would go nice with the cam I want to run.....

It’s just a matter of getting the right ones in there. Then the tf2 kit.

What I don’t like is replacing so many things at once.
But that’s how it needs to happen.

I’ve done engines like this and had to learn how to tune them because of changing too many parts. It’s a concern. Changing the carb, timing chain, distributor cussed me a lot of headaches.....but it also helped me understand many things about each of those things.....especially the carburetor. It was a nightmare learning to re set up a used Holley.

If it has to come back out. I’ll pull it back out and back apart the next weekend and try to sort through what went wrong and why.
Honestly
........what do you see going wrong.

I just need to know if I can get 2.74 gears in there and how.....
The rest of it.....I’m getting the hang of it. I’m getting an understanding of it and I’ll pay it forward.

When it goes back in.....it will be right.