Re: Project Never Ends
Just got home. No issues at all with the tahoe. The bill was a bit more than I wanted, well double but its done.
Carl Rossler is a stand up guy, at one point he wanted to throw my trans away and start fresh so many little things were wrong.
Some I did, so my fault, some well it had to be either GM or GB. Carl told me it looked like the guts had been swapped from several different trans. I know I supplied GB a good core that wasn't a hodge podge.
The trans brake was not fully installed, springs and valves left out, so that was $75 to buy those parts again.
2nd gear clutches were fried, direct drive was also. I went ahead and put a billet direct drive drum in it for safety reasons ($650).
Carl had 1 guy full time on my trans from 7am until 4pm, and himself and another guy part time helping out. I would recommend him any day, he was fair I thought and fully honest. I didn't try to haggle price.
Even as I was leaving he offered to keep trans and tear it all back apart for a 2nd gear piston upgrade if I wanted and ship it to me Monday for just the cost of parts.
One thing I learned which goes against the car forums is he will ONLY build the early model trans 92-95. He won't touch a late model as his. Mine was a 96ish. Receipt specifically said he didn't recommend the 96 and newer. He said GM changed the OD sprag making it weaker and weaker, and the OD planetary seems to suffer lack of lube in the newer ones. Just something to note.
