About a week ago the input shaft in my ats build trans let go and tore everything up pretty bad. It took out the triple disk ats converter, front pump and cracked the front drum( that might just be front 4 years of use).
Now i have questions but first let me describe the truck and its use. Its a 95 4x4 auto with 257k miles. trans has about 60k on it. Now here is where im not sure whats what and how much of what i was told was true. The trans was supposedly rebuilt by the previous owners trans shop using an ATS stage 4 kit. or that's what he said. He provided me with a part list and a price tag. about a year ago i broke the 2nd gear apply lever then shortly after tore the splines out of the front planetary. So i have been into it a couple times and it seemed to have been what he said was in it. it definitely has the ats triple lock, valve body that allows lock up in all forward gears, red alto clutches, chro-moly five pinion front planetary and the 5 pinion aluminum rear planetary. as for the billet input shaft im not so sure. its a 2 piece unit and i thought all billet shafts were one piece units.
The motor is just a tuned 160 pump on a stock hx35, running no more than 30 psi boost and probably 350 max to the rear wheels. it does have 4k gov springs as well. The truck does a lot of towing(mostly highway) and usually not heavier than 8-10k it does see the occasional trip off road but thats usually just ing around in 4x4 low.
Now what i plan is throw a billet shaft in there(input only as i see no power increases in the foreseeable future). triple disk torque converter(looking for suggestions here) and replacing the front pump.
Now i want to know if any of you use your trucks like me and have messed around with different stall speeds in your truck. Mine has always felt very loose and before the 4k governor springs wouldn't rev enough to make use of any of the power. towing was a pain unless it was locked up. which im ashamed to admit probably led to me irresponsibly using the lock up switch... oh yah it has that too.
as for the front pump... are the stock ones fine? do they fall short in any ways?
But mostly i want my reliable truck back. im tired of getting towed home. I only tuned it because i thought the trans would hold a little extra power... maybe that was my mistake.
Ill post pictures later... once i move into the lit garage
Now i have questions but first let me describe the truck and its use. Its a 95 4x4 auto with 257k miles. trans has about 60k on it. Now here is where im not sure whats what and how much of what i was told was true. The trans was supposedly rebuilt by the previous owners trans shop using an ATS stage 4 kit. or that's what he said. He provided me with a part list and a price tag. about a year ago i broke the 2nd gear apply lever then shortly after tore the splines out of the front planetary. So i have been into it a couple times and it seemed to have been what he said was in it. it definitely has the ats triple lock, valve body that allows lock up in all forward gears, red alto clutches, chro-moly five pinion front planetary and the 5 pinion aluminum rear planetary. as for the billet input shaft im not so sure. its a 2 piece unit and i thought all billet shafts were one piece units.
The motor is just a tuned 160 pump on a stock hx35, running no more than 30 psi boost and probably 350 max to the rear wheels. it does have 4k gov springs as well. The truck does a lot of towing(mostly highway) and usually not heavier than 8-10k it does see the occasional trip off road but thats usually just ing around in 4x4 low.
Now what i plan is throw a billet shaft in there(input only as i see no power increases in the foreseeable future). triple disk torque converter(looking for suggestions here) and replacing the front pump.
Now i want to know if any of you use your trucks like me and have messed around with different stall speeds in your truck. Mine has always felt very loose and before the 4k governor springs wouldn't rev enough to make use of any of the power. towing was a pain unless it was locked up. which im ashamed to admit probably led to me irresponsibly using the lock up switch... oh yah it has that too.
as for the front pump... are the stock ones fine? do they fall short in any ways?
But mostly i want my reliable truck back. im tired of getting towed home. I only tuned it because i thought the trans would hold a little extra power... maybe that was my mistake.
Ill post pictures later... once i move into the lit garage