Cruising to work this morning loving life, cruise set at 70 on the highway, when engine revved up like it fell into neutral. Coasted off into shoulder, no forward or reverse gears, and a bit of a rattling/ticking from the torque converter area. Converter is still bolted to flywheel and spinning so it's not that. About 500 miles on a rebuild on the 700r4, was running perfect. I suspect I lost the pump. Going to pull the trans in a few days and check it out. Anyone else have any other ideas? Fluid level read high making me also think the pump is not pumping.

thoughts?

 

Connect a pressure gauge to the service port on the left side and see what your pressures are before you pull it out. Drop the pan next to see if the filter fell off.

 

"Fluid level read high making me also think the pump is not pumping."

I'm going with Lurbie on this one. If the filter fell off, all the fluid in the trans drained to the pan....giving you the high reading.

 

Man that would make my day...........

I'll let you know what I see once I pull the pan.

 

Pump is toast. Apparently there was too much of a gap between the reman converter and the flex plate, which caused the converter drive to not fully engage the pump ears when I bolted it to the flexplate. I should have shimmed with washers. Haven't removed the pump yet but I can see in the gap between the input shaft and seal that its chewed up, one ear appears to be missing. Hopefully pull the pump tonight and open it up.

 

Well, that sucks. Was hoping that wasn't it either. Good luck with the repair.

 

that would certainly do it

I read about checking the distance of this gap prior to doing my install a while back and I used 3 hardened washers (i forget the thickness) to close up the gap. I will be getting my rebuilt/upgraded trans in a few days (from proBuilt automatics) and installing it this weekend (again) and I was thinking that I neeeded to make sure I checked this gap...otherwise the pump wont engage, etc etc, you know where I am going with this. I do forget the exact distance (acceptable amount of gap allowed) though... I think it was 3/8" ?

 

Good times. Grabbed a reman pump for $90, going to replace the converter too just because I'm paranoid and it's cheap.

 

I even cracked the slide ring so I do feel kinda special