"Steve W." wrote in message
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PrecisionmachinisT wrote:
"Karl Townsend" wrote in message
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Damn, you're industrious! We call that "Puppy Blood" and I WANT some!

Na, this is proof i haven't got a real job.


I've been working on an automatic transmission rebuild

--FWIW, removing the yellow circlip that retains the tailshaft into the
4l60E lower case is a real bitch....

Common failure point--mine looks almost identical :

http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/9...ensunshell.png

I'll be picking up a "beefed up" version this afternoon--round trip to
Portland...also fertilizer at Simplot, and this weeks anodizing at
Electro Chem.


Take a CLOSE look at the replacement. Check the root of the splines and
the root of the stub. You want to see a radius.
Some of the "beefed up" versions used straight cut splines and they have
nor fillet at the base of the stub, they also like to shear off due to the
stress.


There is a nice fillet, and the spline appears to have been broached.


I have had real good luck with the Heavy Duty Beast sunshell kit. They
have a nice heat treated spline and generous fillets on the ground areas.


The guy there offered me a used take-out beast shell on the cheap but I
opted for a new one--since that failure mode is obviously caused by repetive
stress I felt best to go with new...

--kicking myself now, because I hadnt noticed till I got home that on the
box it says "Made in China"....

Now I have to decide whether to go back and get the other one... ( I
probably will ) and I dunno if they are open on saturdays, and I had other
plans for the weekend etc....

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