The 4l80 just broke, I'm so ******* pissed off right now!!! I was tightening the bolts down to the block....walked away for a second to answer my phone...hear a loud popping noise. When I come back outside I see my bell housoing broken in two places. The top hole and the passenger side hole where the dipstick tube brackets onto. What can I do at this point!!???

 

did the tranny case break or just the bell housing??

 

How did it break? Was the tail end not supported?

 

Don't even try to get it fixed (welded up), you will have to do a case swap.

 

Yeah I just called chuck at FLT. He's sending me a box right now. It was supported but I guess I did it wrong. I had the engine hoisted in the air and the tranny on a jack. Chuck said I should've put the the engine on the ground though and mated it from there. My problem was there was too much of a gap between the housing and the block. I didn't have the tranny all the way on the doll pins before I started bolting it together!!!!!

 

GOD you are going ot have a MEAN truck when you get it all done. Nice wallet I might add seein how all this was bought and going it at once.

 

that sux man! hope ya get it going!

 

Hey man nice set up!! I just noticed that you live in Fairfax, I live in Herndon right accross the airport, Next time time you go out to a truck show or something let me know it would be sweet if I could see your truck in person!.

 

yea i wonder how much it USED to weigh