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  1. Irishman999

    th350 case advise

    I can build a stout th350 for a few hundred bucks. I have a parts guy that can get you a good rebuild kit for almost nothing shipped to your door. I always do the bolt in center support in th350's and 700R4's, I also use a case saver for double strength.
  2. Irishman999

    th350 case advise

    They are around 100 bucks through transtar. You can upgrade to a wider 4l60 sprag.
  3. Irishman999

    Who wants to share their custom builds?

    I think its a worth while part to include in a unit that will get beat on. This particular one for the Camaro had exploded the inner race that goes into the center support. It was literally in 3 pieces and sheared off the splines on the planetary. The transmission was built by a reputable shop...
  4. Irishman999

    Who wants to share their custom builds?

    Hey man, unless you got some bad ass transmissions to post about go to the build thread lol.
  5. Irishman999

    Irish's pickup from hell, the 454SS.

    Yeah I kinda abandoned the forum, I've been so busy the last five years. No time for anything but cleaning the house, raising kids, working full time, dishes, cooking etc. Now I got some free time finally.
  6. Irishman999

    Who wants to share their custom builds?

    I updated my build thread.
  7. Irishman999

    Irish's pickup from hell, the 454SS.

    So after one helacious life changing day last December that includes me tackling and choking out my neighbor I quit my job, loaded all my tools and shit in a uhaul truck and hauled the Super sport truck on a trailer all the way back to New Mexico where I had just hauled it from the previous...
  8. Irishman999

    Irish's pickup from hell, the 454SS.

    So I was ready to drop this thing in and decided I should paint the engine compartment really nice. I had some Onyx black and all the prep supplies I was saving for the doors I got for the truck and decided to paint the engine compartment before dropping in the engine. I had so much fun doing...
  9. Irishman999

    Irish's pickup from hell, the 454SS.

    The 396 was everything he claimed it was except far from ready to just drop in. It was sitting in a shed for about ten years but it did have all kinds of good shit. I decided to pull it apart and go through it anyways. The main caps had stock bolts so I installed ARP studs, the rod bearings were...
  10. Irishman999

    Irish's pickup from hell, the 454SS.

    Finally in April I rented a uhaul truck and drove it 12 hours round trip the extreme wind and cold to get the thing back home. Once I got it home I started looking for a new big block and remembered a friend of mine had a 396 with all kinds of bad ass shit done to it, he was going to put it...
  11. Irishman999

    Irish's pickup from hell, the 454SS.

    I went back to fix the truck Thanksgiving 2017, I pulled the radiator and drilled out the broken bolts in the harmonic balancer. I put everything back together and it ran great. I decided the next day to take it home, I drove it on the highway for a while and stopped for fuel. When I restarted...
  12. Irishman999

    Irish's pickup from hell, the 454SS.

    Here it is broken down at a holiday in hotel in Heber Az. Once a month I would drive half way across Az. to pick up my oldest son. One day since the truck was running so good and consistent I decided to take it on the drive. Right out side of Heber on 2 lane highway I felt something come apart...
  13. Irishman999

    Irish's pickup from hell, the 454SS.

    Shortly after moving into a really nice place where life was perfect the mining company my wife and I work for decided to transfer us across the state to a shithole called Bagdad. My buddy hauled the truck up there for me since it has 4.10 gears. I set up a nice little garage in the company...
  14. Irishman999

    Irish's pickup from hell, the 454SS.

    UPdate: Since the last post we moved into a bigger house with a great big 2 car garage. I finished putting the truck together and it ran great. I drove it all over Safford Az, it was my daily driver. The small tires were not working so well.
  15. Irishman999

    Who wants to share their custom builds?

    This is a TH400 I got cheap from my friend who was parting out a K30 fire truck. It was nearly perfect inside but I rebuilt it exactly like the one in my buddies mud racing truck. I was gonna flip it for cash but instead decided to help out a local high school kid needing a th400. The kid pulled...
  16. Irishman999

    Who wants to share their custom builds?

    This one came out of another friends K5 Blazer, he had someone try to install a shift kit and they used white lithium grease to hold the check balls in. The grease didn't melt and it burned up. I didnt do to many upgrades to this one since it was not against a ton of power. This is the last...
  17. Irishman999

    Who wants to share their custom builds?

    This is out of my friends mud racing truck, I got it with a broken bell housing and he claimed it was burnt up. It was actually his cheap ebay converter that let go but we rebuilt it anyways. We cut the bell housing off with a pnumatic cut off wheel and fine tuned it with a flapper wheel on a...
  18. Irishman999

    Who wants to share their custom builds?

    I have been building Transmissions as a hobby for a few years now just going off books I read, threads on the internet and asking professionals. Always love to see other peoples custom builds and hear what they do to them.
  19. Irishman999

    TH350 Bellhousing

    Every TH350 ever made has that hole.
  20. Irishman999

    th350 case advise

    Install one of these with a case saver. I just did one in a buddies 77 Corvette that looked like that, so far so good.
  21. Irishman999

    TH400 Problem

    Those look like broken off case lugs. The center support is held in by a snap ring but the groves dont go all the way around, the big ass snap ring is only holding about 70% of the radius. They make a bolt in center support for TH350's that works awesome, not sure why they dont make one for a...
  22. Irishman999

    th400 power.

    Might consider upgrading the forward clutch hub that links the forward and direct drum. As far as the sprag upgrade, you can always buy a 4l80 drum and a new clutch off ebay for under 200 bucks. All the 4l80's came with dog bones instead of a roller clutch. There is also a way to rollorize...
  23. Irishman999

    Irish's pickup from hell, the 454SS.

    Well I fired it up yesterday no problem. The fuel pump really moves some fuel, it looked like a garden hose when I purged the feed line. I didn't drive it, still need to secure all the fuel lines and put the bed back on. It starts right up, runs perfectly at idle and the gauge never left 60 psi.
  24. Irishman999

    Irish's pickup from hell, the 454SS.

    It's safe for any fuels or oil, I even used it for trans cooler lines.
  25. Irishman999

    Irish's pickup from hell, the 454SS.

    Thanks Cobb! More progress today, I'm shooting for a fire up this holiday weekend. I don't care how long you spend designing your fuel system on paper, when you go to thread everything together you find you ordered a bunch of ass backwards shit but end up using it anyways somewhere. I'm now...

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