Re: FW: Tranny rebuilds

[jlandry@domain.elided (John A. Landry)]

In a brilliant stroke of genius, "Hitchcox, Ken" <ken.hitchcox@domain.elided>
blurted out:

>So the only reason to replace the Torque converter is because of
>contamination? Otherwise, they don’t wear out?

Sure sounds that way to me!  I mean, you can't open the thing up or take it
apart, so how can it really be "rebuilt"???  *Maybe* they stick it on a
machine which pumps solvent through it and tests it somehow?

>What did I get when I got a
>rebuilt converter? Just a very clean one?

Yes... if your lucky!  Or else you got one they paid $50.00 for at a
wrecking yard and they cleaned it out by hand using kerosene.

Either way I smell a ripoff... unless you really have a broken torque
converter and need a replacement.

>Are there any major components that wear out and need replacement? Like
>pumps or? 

The torque convertor is the pump.

Go for it Ken!

John L.
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