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RE: The Flyin Pumpkin! - Captain America - 09-23-2011
Yea! 123 Love! They are the best!
RE: The Flyin Pumpkin! - Rudolf_Diesel - 09-23-2011
(09-21-2011, 11:38 PM)Biohazard Runs petty good! Been stupid busy lately, not much time for anything. Actually it runs strong enough that my trans is slipping when shifting. There WILL be dyno action after swapping this engine into my new donar car.Swapping stock head gasket in this weekend, stay tuned!
That was one of the problems I had with my car, but it was when I mashed it in fourth...I ended up using the John Deere Tractor Oil for the trans and it helped. I also got the shift improver kit, which also helped. I adjusted the line pressure as well which was low when I initially checked it. All these little things helped, but it did not fix the slipping issue. I honestly think the torque converter was the issue in top gear, but I could be wrong.
RE: The Flyin Pumpkin! - Biohazard - 09-23-2011
Slips pretty bad between each gear, also slips if I shift it manually. This trans was put together by a cracked out lab monkey though, it was having problems even with the stock IP. Seems to be holding once its in gear though. Can't wait for the manual in the 300d!
RE: The Flyin Pumpkin! - Biohazard - 09-23-2011
Two hours, fifty five minutes...
RE: The Flyin Pumpkin! - Rudolf_Diesel - 09-23-2011
Deffinitely get a good clutch and pressure plate combo. There is a place in Southern California, So. El Monte, called Clutchnet. I talked to them about building a combo for me when I was considering the Tremec TKO. The owner said he could take the stock pressure plate and rebuild it to whatever clamp pressure I wanted. They have many different compounds as well for the disc.
RE: The Flyin Pumpkin! - Biohazard - 09-23-2011
Thanks for the info, I may need to use them!
RE: The Flyin Pumpkin! - JustPassinThru - 09-24-2011
Of course, there are local shops. Steve at Casey's Trans-Plant in south Tacoma tells me they do a lot of Mercedes transmissions. The trick though is to find a shop that will let you watch, or even better let you help!
RE: The Flyin Pumpkin! - Rudolf_Diesel - 09-24-2011
(09-24-2011, 02:26 AM)JustPassinThru Of course, there are local shops. Steve at Casey's Trans-Plant in south Tacoma tells me they do a lot of Mercedes transmissions. The trick though is to find a shop that will let you watch, or even better let you help!
Local for rebuilding is the way to go. I am referring to getting a good performance combo. There are many down here, I just had a warm fuzzy feeling after talking to the owner and his receptiveness to my needs. If you can find that in your area then you are ahead of the game.
Off Topic - I spent a lot of time in Tacoma, 20+ years ago working next to the famous Tacoma Dome
RE: The Flyin Pumpkin! - JustPassinThru - 09-24-2011
(09-24-2011, 09:09 AM)Rudolf_Diesel ...Local for rebuilding is the way to go. I am referring to getting a good performance combo. There are many down here, I just had a warm fuzzy feeling after talking to the owner and his receptiveness to my needs. If you can find that in your area then you are ahead of the game.
Amen.
When I was a teenager (1968-1974), my hometown of Renton was the local hot-rodding mecca, a real-life American Graffiti. Late one night in 1972, after tuning-up my '63 Dynamic 88, I took it for a test drive on Benson Hill. A Renton cop not much older than I, with a '70's hairdo and big mustachio, pulled me over doing 70 in a 35. He didn't even write me a ticket (BUT, it might have helped that my mom was, at the time, the Renton City Clerk. In other words, she signed every Renton cop's weekly paycheck). He was just curious, he said, how I was getting 0 to 60 in 6 out of such a sedentary boat. This may give you some idea of what gearheads Rentonites were. Even the cops grooved with us...
Unfortunately, now that I have decided to give my second-childhood or mid-life-crisis racing urges free rein, albeit on a limited budget, none of the old legendary Renton speed shops exists any more, except Doctor Injector. There used to be a Tremec distributor in Renton, Dark Horse, but they're gone now.
I have however found some glimmers, at least, of high-performance expertise in the neighboring-to-the-south city of Kent, which seems to have taken Renton's crown during the last forty years. Alamo Turbo in Kent knew exactly what to do to pop the exhaust housing off my GT22V, and Robert at Performance Specialties in Kent knows old Mercedes' engines quite well.
But I spotted a guy in Renton just the other day, --no, not Ted at Friedel's, someone else ...this guy was soldering on the radiator of an immaculate '95 560 SEL, and, doubling back, I noticed he had the top engine taken apart. Stopping in and just nonchalantly chatting, I did indeed get that warm fuzzy feeling to which you refer. But I'll keep his identity up my sleeve for the moment, until I check him out a little further.
(09-24-2011, 09:09 AM)Rudolf_Diesel Off Topic - I spent a lot of time in Tacoma, 20+ years ago working next to the famous Tacoma Dome
Ten years ago, for about eight months, I drove a reefer box truck all up and down the West Coast, picking up live sea urchins from boat docks ranging from Anacortes, Washington to Bodega Bay, California, and hauling them to processing facilities in Ventura, Fort Bragg, and Tacoma, for a Japanese company called Y & L (sea urchin eggs are a prime delicacy topping for sushi). The main base where I picked up and left off the truck was two blocks from the Tacoma Dome. Saw Paul McCartney there in 2002. Bought tickets that same year to see the Rolling Stones at the T-Dome, but had to sell them, something came up. That was the second time in my life I bought Rolling Stones tickets and then had to cancel. First time was in '83 at the Kingdome. I still have those tickets. Perhaps I can arrange them in a little dashboard shrine.
RE: The Flyin Pumpkin! - mike-81-240d - 09-25-2011
(09-24-2011, 11:57 AM)JustPassinThru Ted at Friedel's
Don't hate on Ted around me, We're buddies even though we're 40 years apart ahaha.
RE: The Flyin Pumpkin! - JustPassinThru - 09-25-2011
(09-25-2011, 01:56 AM)mike-81-240d(09-24-2011, 11:57 AM)JustPassinThru Ted at Friedel's
Don't hate on Ted around me, We're buddies even though we're 40 years apart ahaha.
Glad to hear it. I'll tell Ted you wrote that, when I deliver the parts to him on Monday that I bought for him today.