I know this is my first real post, so i will probably get the standard responses but i will ask away and see what is available while i still keep looking through this resource.
I just sold an LH torana to someone on this forum on the weekend but he has since run into some trouble with it.
It has to the best of my knowledge a 253 in it.
On the way home the new owner found that the automatic gearbox in it started having trouble shifting and got progressively worse. to the point it had trouble getting into second gear.
When i sold it I told him i was having trouble getting it into reverse but after a quick trip around the block it was fine so the first thing he should probably do was to just get the transmission looked at.
Now for him to not make it even home makes it seem it was worse that i expected it was.
his mechanic has looked at the transmission and said it is shagged but hasn't revealed any extra information to the owner to find out specifically what is going on but did say it was a TH350 box.
the owner does have a spare th400 that he wants to know if it will be a direct replacement.
so now i have a few questions.
-From the information i was able to gather yesterday and this morning, the 253 only ever came out with the TriMatic and the block was not the chev pattern block so a th350 or th400 could not just simply bolt in?
-If however it is indeed a TH350 as according to the mechanic, then it should be just a simple case of taking the shagged TH350 out and replacing it with the TH400 as the bolt spacings and box lengths should all be the same (no changes to xmember or tailshaft length required either)?
-the old man mentioned last night that because the car had been sitting for a long time (it had not been driven for 9 months until last week when both the owner and myself took it for a spin around the block to see if it was still alright...which it felt it was albeit the reverse issue mentioned above), that it would probably pay to drop the sump off of it and give it a good spray of WD40 inside the transmission to see if it will loosen up the valves and what not which may have become sticky after sitting for a long time?
-i suggested to the new owner that we both head down to a wrecking yard on the weekend and rip another gearbox from a torana down at the wreckers and simply replace whatever the transmission actually is with a similar era car and engine package transmission model?
IF anyone can help me with how accurate the information i have gathered is, that would be much appreciated to help the owner out.
cheers
Damien
Edited by barned01, 13 June 2007 - 11:47 AM.
