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Old Sep 8, 2015 | 07:06 AM
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I bought a 4l80e off of a guy here. "supposed" to be a good trans. I felt comfortable with it. It was clean and still had gm stickers on it. Anyway...

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I installed the trans. ( later 80e) on to my 5.3. Used flat flex and the 6.0 spacer plate. I have it all buttoned up. started it up and let the engine warm up a few cycles to make sure i had oil pressure and bla on the engine.

I went to finally put it in gear the other day and had 0. nothing. So i thought center shift control. so i took off the nss. and shifted it on trans. Still nothing. I unhooked cooler line and got fluid, a big air bubble. and more fluid and then stopped.. In this time i had the gauge hooked up to the test port on side. 0 psi. But the rear wheels moved some. Then stopped.

Is there a next step to try? Or is there a guy local to central PA that is good with trans to maybe tear it down to visually inspect warn parts? and do a rebuild if necessary? Or enlighten me on other things to try? I'm stumped and out of my comfort zone with a trans.

its all in a 99 s10 5.3 with a 4l80e..
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Old Sep 8, 2015 | 05:53 PM
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How much fluid did you put in-they take close to 12 qts, and really need to be full-also you need an accurate filler tube/stick
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i started with 6 in pan. Started it and let it run and added more.. I was up to 12 when I gave up hope. I read something when i searched about it. Says put 5 in, start, ad 2 immediately which i didn't. But added as I went. Got up to 12.. I pulled the cooler lines off and got fluid, then air bubble then fluid then nothing. But wheels finally started to spin. So i thought hmm air bubble do this? Then i let it run little more and then had 0 again.

Today at lunch i took tc off again. I checked in between seal of pump and the gear. Didn't see anything there. I thought about taking seal out to see gears? or pull pump out and tare it down. But i put tc back in all the way. Measured bell to tc pads. I'm 1 1/16. which is 1.06, i read 1.03 should be. as fall as engine. i used flate flex plate, spacer. i got 15/16 from block to edge of flex teeth on the tranny side.
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With the conv. seated all the way in the trans, how far from the conv. pads to the FW where the pads mount-some of those convs. don't have a real deep slot where they engage the pump gears, and if you pull it to far out you lose that engagement-I think ballpark you shouldn't have to go but 3/16 pullout to hit the FW, sometimes a little more-some guys have had to add spacers
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That's what I read. I'm at 1.06. I'm dropping it off to ha e a guy do a tear down and reseal if he don't find anything in Monday. Idk how long that takes. Then go from. There
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