80E Teardown
#1
80E Teardown
Finally had a couple hours to take a quick look at this 80E I've had sitting here for over a year. It had been overheating since I purchased it and I had replaced or tested everything external to the trans. Thought something broke the last time I took it out for some logging, so I pulled it and swapped in another 80E which has been running super cool with the same(new) 40k cooler and converter. As I recall, it was making an ugly noise similar to driving with the parking pawl engaged....well maybe not that loud, but a ratcheting sound like that.
So far, I have emptied the case and just had a quick look at things. Have not pulled apart the pump or VB, etc. I don't see any broken parts yet, but the sun gear appears to have been heated up. Clutches look pretty well new. Any parts that I haven't cracked open seem to spin smoothly. It took some prying to separate the center support from the reaction drum. Looks like I have a 97 up rear ring gear/shaft and sun gear, and a 91-96 sun gear shaft.
4l80e Center Gear Box Changefor 1999
http://www.transgo.org/Research/Tech...be-Changes.pdf
4L80E Service Manual
4L80E Tech Guide (from Superado's Dropbox)
So far, I have emptied the case and just had a quick look at things. Have not pulled apart the pump or VB, etc. I don't see any broken parts yet, but the sun gear appears to have been heated up. Clutches look pretty well new. Any parts that I haven't cracked open seem to spin smoothly. It took some prying to separate the center support from the reaction drum. Looks like I have a 97 up rear ring gear/shaft and sun gear, and a 91-96 sun gear shaft.
4l80e Center Gear Box Changefor 1999
http://www.transgo.org/Research/Tech...be-Changes.pdf
4L80E Service Manual
4L80E Tech Guide (from Superado's Dropbox)
Last edited by DrX; 09-28-2014 at 03:52 PM.
#6
I really don't see any other obvious damage as to what was making the ratcheting sound after I believe the t-brake engaged via forced upshift during decel at probably 2X MPH....forced upshift cannot be disabled by HPT or EFILive. From what I can deduce, in this situation the direct clutches would apply and act as a brake on the rotating parts. This noise did not go away. The only other things I noticed were that the center support was jammed tight inside the low roller clutch but spins freely and separates easily now, and the low/reverse band looks a little chewed up.
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Last edited by DrX; 09-29-2014 at 10:45 PM.
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#9
Finally got around to putting this back together with the correct sun gear shaft and a fresh gearset. Couldn't keep it over 100*F at 55 mph on a test drive today running through the 40k cooler only(rad bypassed). Ambient was around 50*F. I got it to 108*F on some lower speed driving.