Jack's 2007 Chevy Build

[tombodad]

Jack-
Awesome to hear your review of the Transgo jr, as that is something I have been considering also.
Quick question, when you dropped your pan, did you have any loose bolts in the transmission? When I flushed and replaced my filters after I bought mine, I dropped the pan to get to the internal filter. Imagine my surprise when an internal bolt hit me in the head, as well as another being half backed out!! :O I'm talking about the long black 8mm bolts, of which there are what, maybe 15 of them?

Needless to say, I was very alarmed, as well as confused as to how that may have happened.

Yours were all tight?

[locrwln]

Thanks, I highly recommend the kit. Looking at your location, just for reference, I ordered my kit off of ebay and the company was out of Lakeside, WA.

Anyway, nope none of my bolts were loose. In fact they were very tight, everyone of them. When I re-installed them I torqued them to spec and it didn't seem as tight. Could have been the difference between wrenches (regular for removal and torque for install). And yeah, there are a boat load of those in both black and zinc plated. If you do the intall, make sure you clean everything up as much as you can and mark where the zinc ones go. They are longer than the black bolts.

Jack

[Redline]

Fun pics and some serious hiking there J & D

Nice

[Walker]

Love it, you are an inspiration to us all.

[locrwln]

Fun pics and some serious hiking there J & D

Nice

Thank you. Hopefully you will get to put your new to you camper to use after getting it up to speed.

Love it, you are an inspiration to us all.

Thanks, I do what I can.

Jack

[locrwln]

I thought my wife had deleted the pics we took of the transmission. They aren't that detailed as far as the install goes, they were just pics of bolt location and wire location on the VB.







Jack

[locrwln]

Completed another quick project Friday afternoon. None of my other offroad vehicles has ever had the cabin filter and once you hit pavement and turn on the HVAC, you get a big poof of dust out of the vents.

When GM first designed the GMT800 platform, they designed it with a cabin filter. Sometime around 2002-2003, they stopped installing them in the trucks. It does take a little work, but you can add the filters to your truck.

Picked up the filters from Napa, there are two filters in each box, so don't do like I did and buy two boxes (unless you just want to have spares on hand.

Here is the writeup I used.
http://www.dieselplace.com/forum/sho...d.php?t=384555

This first cut was the hardest, but I now have a cabin filter for the truck. Hopefully that will keep the interior dust down.

Jack

[1stDeuce]

Jack, how about a Transgo update?? I have read on Dieselplace that many people reported good results initially, but then as miles are accumulated post-install, the trans learns the shifts back soft again. I assume you were happy with the firmness of the shifts after install, so are they still as firm as when you first did it, or is it learning the mod out slowly? I'm thinking about doing this to my truck too, as it's at 150k now, and this seems like a good idea!!

Thanks for all the writeups too!! Good to see you out and about!
Chris

[locrwln]

Jack, how about a Transgo update?? I have read on Dieselplace that many people reported good results initially, but then as miles are accumulated post-install, the trans learns the shifts back soft again. I assume you were happy with the firmness of the shifts after install, so are they still as firm as when you first did it, or is it learning the mod out slowly? I'm thinking about doing this to my truck too, as it's at 150k now, and this seems like a good idea!!

Thanks for all the writeups too!! Good to see you out and about!
Chris

Still shifting "right." I have about 400 miles or so since the install and still liking it. I do think it has softened sightly, especially at light throttle settings, but the "flare" I was getting is completely gone and when you get on it, it shifts firm. So I am happy.

As a side note, major score for me today. A guy was selling an almost new Warn 12k winch on a local board, it was too big for his jeep, so I was able to pick it up for $800. Can't beat that. Now I just have to get a bumper to mount it on...

Jack

[bobDog]

Still shifting "right." I have about 400 miles or so since the install and still liking it. I do think it has softened sightly, especially at light throttle settings, but the "flare" I was getting is completely gone and when you get on it, it shifts firm. So I am happy.

As a side note, major score for me today. A guy was selling an almost new Warn 12k winch on a local board, it was too big for his jeep, so I was able to pick it up for $800. Can't beat that. Now I just have to get a bumper to mount it on...

Jack

nice score!!!! so you don't think a couple C clamps won't do the job?