Yanked 4l60 BLOWS 3-4 AGAIN
I understand why your response would be to blame the builder, but honestly you sell the product and offer no support on tuning it to properly work in the vehicle. You should at least take the time to learn the basics of how to make your product work properly, not tell people to "call this guy at this shop, he does tuning"
Anyway as others have said did you have the converter cleaned prior to reinstalling it? The failing clutches from the old tranny will work their way into the converter and then destroy the new one.
Anyway.... I have tuned several cars with stall converters and never had this problem, this was the first 98 that I did and I would like to thank Jimmyblue for his input on the force motor current (without all the useless opinions to boot), 2 years later same transmission same converter and working fine, there was simply not enough holding force in OD. I was driving the car to tune it and it seemed fine, but over time it was slipping in OD enough to wipe out the clutches.
And Redbird555 I am not offbase, when I call and ask the builder for some advice as to what maybe happening and he has NO CLUE I mean NO IDEA..I find that odd. I own a shop and I have called comp cams and their tech line is VERY knowledgeable about cam choices and yes tuning for the cam, I did not ask him to tune it. People like you are the reason people don't go on these forums. Yank was quick enough to blame the builder, if you look at my initial post I was asking for help...first response from YANK
"Who is the trans builder I would look to them for cause of the failure.
Slipping 3/4 clutch pack has the same feel as the converter clutch would if it was slipping.
You might look to one of the transbuilders listed here"
No, it was not the builder....but he jumped right on not trying to solve the issue but blaming someone else.
BTW I build engines, and yes I can build a transmission and tune them too. So if I build your engine YES, I can give you a start up tune, oh wait...I can tune it completely...I must be freakin god? I own my own shop and have been in business 10 years, I could probably smoke you with my Toyota pickup....so I guess I "learned how" to build cars. Check out my garage Mr opinion.....I built them...not bought them...People PAY ME to build their cars...How much do you earn building them?
Car is my wife's and is running fine...once again thank you Jimmyblue, and if you are having this issue with your trans, I left all the other codes on that someone suggested needed to be done, they did not....not saying that you won't need to, but all I needed was 15% less on the force motor current, I think the 98 had 2 tables....+ and - ....later years had one table, BTW after this experience I tried doing this on 99+ cars/trucks and found the transmission banging when you go from park to drive. seems like 5% worked better on them....
And Redbird555 I am not offbase, when I call and ask the builder for some advice as to what maybe happening and he has NO CLUE I mean NO IDEA..I find that odd. I own a shop and I have called comp cams and their tech line is VERY knowledgeable about cam choices and yes tuning for the cam, I did not ask him to tune it. People like you are the reason people don't go on these forums. Yank was quick enough to blame the builder, if you look at my initial post I was asking for help...first response from YANK
"Who is the trans builder I would look to them for cause of the failure.
Slipping 3/4 clutch pack has the same feel as the converter clutch would if it was slipping.
You might look to one of the transbuilders listed here"
No, it was not the builder....but he jumped right on not trying to solve the issue but blaming someone else.
Wow... Such lazyness its unreal.
Yank builds converters. Damn good ones. He built mine. He doesn't tune. TUNERS tune cars. Either learn to tune, as setting up the tune for a converter is very easy. I own hpt pro and do my own tuning. Or take it to a tuner and let them.
Would you tell your engine builder you want a start up tune?
You want to build cars? Learn how. You want someone else to build it for you? Pay them to.
Yank builds converters. Damn good ones. He built mine. He doesn't tune. TUNERS tune cars. Either learn to tune, as setting up the tune for a converter is very easy. I own hpt pro and do my own tuning. Or take it to a tuner and let them.
Would you tell your engine builder you want a start up tune?
You want to build cars? Learn how. You want someone else to build it for you? Pay them to.
Car is my wife's and is running fine...once again thank you Jimmyblue, and if you are having this issue with your trans, I left all the other codes on that someone suggested needed to be done, they did not....not saying that you won't need to, but all I needed was 15% less on the force motor current, I think the 98 had 2 tables....+ and - ....later years had one table, BTW after this experience I tried doing this on 99+ cars/trucks and found the transmission banging when you go from park to drive. seems like 5% worked better on them....
