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slowlsx 02-02-2009 02:02 PM

Blew my Tranny because of a servo!!
 
Well here is the run down... my cam,headers,410 gear come in on monday... i take it to my dads shop and everything but the gears are installed on wednesday so i take the truck to go the exhaust done (3' full exhaust with a dynamax bullet:nod:) then after that i take it to flaco to go get it tune which ran great by the way. so the next day i take it back to my dads shop installed the 410's and then we put the servo in exactly how it is suppose to be put in. i drive around the block and its shifting pretty firm but nothing drastic to how it was shifting after flaco tuned it. so i leave from houston goin down 225 get of on the beltway and once i get on red bluff it just stops shifting. i give it a little gas in it just revs up? i pull over and oil is leaking pretty bad were the servo was put in. we look underdeath and the servo is still in place a little bulged out but the around the servo the transmission case is cracked!

basically it was a horrible friday and i have no idea why this happend? any suggestions to why this happened? bad news is im out of a truck for a couple days... good news is we are gonna go head and put a 3500 stall and look for a new tranny cause i doubt the tranny is fixable?

nighthawk08 02-02-2009 02:12 PM

you didn't install the snap ring all the way in and probably cracked the tranny case.

slowlsx 02-02-2009 02:15 PM

yea thats what a tranny shop told me... it was our first servo to ever put in and we didnt think nothing of it, its a cheap little servo... i guess you live and learn

Mr. Sandog 02-02-2009 02:19 PM


Originally Posted by colyneedsv8 (Post 4117337)
you didn't install the snap ring all the way in and probably cracked the tranny case.

Common error, and an expensive one.

kbracing96 02-02-2009 02:21 PM

It's not the servos fault it wasn't installed correctly. This has happened several times on here. :(

slowlsx 02-02-2009 02:25 PM

yea for sure im not blaming the servo im just saying a 17$ dollar mod is gonna cost me over a grand.

trever1t 02-02-2009 02:25 PM

Oh man, yeah i have heard this before, sad each time.

magnetized 02-02-2009 04:34 PM

Man that sucks

BIRCHZ71 02-02-2009 04:47 PM

damn..sorry to hear this. I can tell you if i had known about this before i had done my servo install on my old tranny i prob never would have done it. Hope you get it fixed!

95 bright teal 02-02-2009 04:51 PM

This is why my servo is still on my shelf. sorry to hear it man


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