R154 Rebuild

[dumbo]

Good place in Vancouver, BC?

 

[Nick M]

A manual rebuild can be done without any special tools, and is much simpler than an automatic. Just a thought. I think the repair manual is more than detailed enough.

 

[dumbo]

To do it properly though, you need a fair amount of tooling. I have neither time or tooling to do it haha. Bump...

 

[dumbo]

So bump anyone? Otherwise it just the old yellow pages and some nail biting time.

 

[black89t]

A manual rebuild can be done without any special tools, and is much simpler than an automatic. Just a thought. I think the repair manual is more than detailed enough.

um........i wouldn't make it out to be that easy. most guys don't have press, vice, variety of snapring pliers, bearing spliters, vblocks, large bench space, let alone the understanding/knowledege needed to do a successful rebuild. jusk like if some noob goes to rebuild a engine with out any experience. there are many details that if over looked the engine will fail. many that aren't layed out it the tsrm. for instance properly cleaning the bores with motor oil and paper towels till its just clean oil on the bores without any metal dust from honing. the same goes with transmissions.

to the op do some local research. what do other shops have to say about said tranny shops. find one thats busy.

 

[dumbo]

Yah I'll just call around and ask dumb question like I need my Supra tranny rebuilt, if someone calls it a R154, I'll be sold, I got the whole kit fromDM, plus some MC parts to go in. So yah... It just tooling...

 

[OneJArpus]

Why not use MC? Pricing too high?

 

[Nick M]

um........i wouldn't make it out to be that easy. most guys don't have press, vice, variety of snapring pliers, bearing spliters, vblocks, large bench space, let alone the understanding/knowledege needed to do a successful rebuild. jusk like if some noob goes to rebuild a engine with out any experience. there are many details that if over looked the engine will fail. many that aren't layed out it the tsrm. for instance properly cleaning the bores with motor oil and paper towels till its just clean oil on the bores without any metal dust from honing. the same goes with transmissions.

to the op do some local research. what do other shops have to say about said tranny shops. find one thats busy.

What I said is absolutely correct. It isn't rocket science, is much easier to do than an automatic, and requires no special tools. We probably don't conisder the same things special tools.

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Yah I'll just call around and ask dumb question like I need my Supra tranny rebuilt, if someone calls it a R154, I'll be sold, I got the whole kit fromDM, plus some MC parts to go in. So yah... It just tooling...

What if they call it the R series?

 

[dumbo]

Yah I'll just drop it off with the manual and parts haha, and ask for all the old parts back. I'll get the feeling if someones bs'n. I'd love to do it myself but the time and money on tools wouldn't be worth it for me.

 

[black89t]

What I said is absolutely correct. It isn't rocket science, is much easier to do than an automatic, and requires no special tools. We probably don't conisder the same things special tools.

sorry but i don't buy it. both the tranny and engine in my mk3 have been built by me. i have a good amount of experience though. to tell someone over the internet that rebuilding a transmission is something the average joe car guy can do is just misleading/

 

[dumbo]

It's not hard if you have the tooling. But I'd rather give someone a few hundred bucks then spend it on tools that I got nowhere to put.

So bump to the original question.