I'm with you captain, it's definitely not worth rushing, I'll still be going at the same pace, just putting in more hours if I can, that way if it makes it cheering, if not at least I tried, and there's no way I'll be taking it there if it's not run in 100% or if there's still issues...

Barnz don't get me wrong, I am very much the same, I stoned each surface of the steels, and the two frictions had like 1% wear, plus this pack only controls Reverse, and low range if it were 4wd... I can live with that

I tackled the valve body again last night, and just as I thought with a clear head it was just as easy as they claimed..

There's two halves, with a sandwich plate Inbetween, then the TCM.. I only got one half done last night, completely stripped it, gave it a Kero bath, blew it down for about 20mins making sure I got in every nook and cranny, changed over the factory plungers/Pistons for the Sonax ones with o-rings, then put it back together, and I'm feeling better about using new solenoids (not coz Bellend suggested it, but because I wanted to [emoji106])

Genuine solenoids $600

Genuine sandwich plate $117

Still waiting on the motor and dad spent 3hrs tipping the valves, still with 8 to go this afternoon.. About 0.03" had to come off each, not many people understand how crucial the correct Crush/lash is even with hydraulic lifters

Thanks, Joe

Sweet stuff mate

these fancy new clutched automatic gearboxes are a fair piece of engineering brilliance... I thought my manual gearbox was complex when I deconstructed it haha

^^^

Edited May 13, 201511 yr by barnz

White man magic that is!

Where did you get the Zip Kit Bloke?

Where did you get the Zip Kit Bloke?

http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&alt=web&id=281452110468

Has anyone ever installed a Barra and ZF in one go from the top?

You can do it,you'll need to jack the rear end of the car up quite high for clearance and probably remove the balancer......I'm not a fan of this method.