No Overdrive

[The Monty]

When I was younger, my parents bought a 1 year old AU 1 forte. I read up on the specs and though we had a freak car as I could have sworn it had 5 gears, lol.

[Stattic]

Haha nice. One cool thing to do is leave it I 3rd and do 80kph, give it some throttle and watch it stall the 3k then drop off. Cool for me anywy lol

[The Monty]

I love putting it in D and from 60 being able to accelerate quickly to 100 in 4th as the stall is slipping off its boobs.

[Stattic]

Ok you win lol

[frd906]

Well another gear box is going into the car. Just come back from the auto place, 3rd gear is soft, Torque converter not working and takes time for it to go into drive,

So it will be fitted either this weekend or next week

[Mr Hardware]

so do you think this will be third time lucky?

[Stattic]

Sell the cars parts and buy a cheap au with a working transmission. So much stuffing around mate it's hardly worth it

[frd906]

lol i hope so lol.

[frd906]

Well got the car back the other day, cost me 330 fitted, front and rear seals, rear bush kit, oil and a filter kit,

Drives really good,

[KR1STO]

I thought it was under warranty....???

[frd906]

Becuase it states under there warrenty that is must be fitted either by them or there auto shop, i got it fitted through some one else. which then kinda voids the warrenty didnt help with it being almost out off warrenty

But becuase they didnt fit it, they can blame some one elses errors for the things going wrong

[Mr Hardware]

so wait on
you bought a box from the wreckers
then had to fix it at your own cost
for a similar total price to a fully rebuilt box that you could have had a full 1 or 2 year warranty on
never have to worry, never get your hands dirty, be pretty much guaranteed that the box will outlast the car
now you have a box that still might implode in 6 months time.

[GS608]

Originally Posted by Mr Hardware

so wait on
you bought a box from the wreckers
then had to fix it at your own cost
for a similar total price to a fully rebuilt box that you could have had a full 1 or 2 year warranty on
never have to worry, never get your hands dirty, be pretty much guaranteed that the box will outlast the car
now you have a box that still might implode in 6 months time.

Some people never learn aye..first time i bought something from the wreckers that didnt work i took it back and went and bought a new one from bursons.

[frd906]

whats the point of putting a new box in a 10 year old falcon which will never be around for ever in its life, i need the box put in so i could drive it around,

[Mr Hardware]

whats the point of putting a new box in a 10 year old falcon which will never be around for ever in its life

to prolong it's life. certainly the thing to do if you're going to go as far as respraying it.

[HLC]

Originally Posted by Mr Hardware

mine does exactly the same thing, and has done so for the last 90,000klms
i believe the issue is with the sprag gear or sprag clutch or some such thing
it's one of those pay several hundred dollars to fix something incredibly minor
if you wanted a perfect box then you shouldn't have got a wreckers special
sounds like you've got champagne tastes for beer money, it ain't gonna happen mate

Having a worn C4 clutch band in the box causes this. I too have to same issue ie, no engine braking.

There you go, more knowledge

[The Monty]

Also, Blackers10's old gearbox in his Fairlane done the same thing
Completely not relevant, but it is an FRD thread, and its mostly not relevant anyway.

[frd906]

lol so funny monty lol, wasnt just the clutch pack or wat eva it is was other problems with it as well

[The Monty]

What were the other problems?

[HLC]

Originally Posted by The Monty

What were the other problems?

Yeah? Just reads like clutch band to me.

[frd906]

torque converter wasnt working properly. problem with 3rd gear. was slipping. delay going into drive.

[KR1STO]

and no warranty..???

[The Monty]

So $330 to take out your box, replace a band, replace the converter, flush and a service?
I think they are telling you porkies.

[frd906]

lol so funny monty. i got another auto under warrenty. then i took the auto to a auto shop and sat there amd watched them change it for me. so monty pays to read my above posts to find it was replaced with another box

[Stattic]

Not sure if Monty would pay to read anything by you. And mr hardware you are 100% correct, the point of putting a fresh box in a... Car.. Like yours is that it's cost basically the same, the car would have been off the road for far less amount of time
from what I see you just like hanging around the wreckers an buying things regardless of what people with more than half a brain tell you