Had a great day of work today in Brian's shop. Taking advantage of his lift has been awesome.
Pulled the rearend apart and installed the 31 spline 3.50 gear posi third member and got it all back together before lunch.
Got the tranny pan torqued
Pulled the converter loose from the flex plate and checked the clearance and it was in spec so I put that all back together.
Put on some DEI Heat protection on the tranny cooler lines above the exhaust.
Mounted the shifter cable out of the way of damage from the exhaust.
Filled the tranny back up with fluid and checked for major leaks. Non so far.
Fired the truck up and let it heat up. It got hot fast...faster than it should.
Pulled one of the heater hoses off and filled the rest of the motor with water and got it back together.
Started it back up and it was much better but noticed a lot of top end noise. Something is not quite right. So much that I was not going to run it any more. Pulled the drivers side valve cover and there was very little oil getting up there.
Not too sure what the problem is but hoping that its simple. I have oil pressure on the guage but doing some reading it might be the o ring on the pickup and the pump is sucking in air and sending that out with the oil.
By that time, I was exhausted...literally and was pretty beat from the last two days of work.
So instead of getting to see if the truck actually shifted into gears and moved on its own power, we figured out how we could tow it back uphill to my house.
Beyond deflated right now.
Ill try and screw with it this week if i can find the time.
Sean