Matt69olds,
Yeah, it's called time for a rebuild. I'm just trying whatever I can think of to put it off as long as I can. When it was stock I got 192K out of it before I got it rebuilt. And you know I racked my brain the other day trying to remember, "What was it that caused me to decide to get it overhauled?" I can't remember. I can remember actually driving it to this trans. shop some guy I knew recommended. So it couldn't have been because it wasn't running.
Now I do remember way back when I had a '69 Charger SE 383. I took it to this guy who was real good on Torqueflight's. He got behind the wheel and held the brake with the engine running, put it in drive and reved it up to see when the tires broke loose. Right then he said, "The torque converter is gone." Three hundred and fifty bucks later I had a new transmission! That Charger wouldn't stop burning rubber. Damn! I miss that car. I loved that car. I had more fun in that car than any other car i've ever had, and got more you know what in that car than any other car I had. But that's a you know what car anyway. It was a '69, and I bought it off a used car lot, one of those kinds of used car lots you'd never seriously go to to buy a used car, if you know what I mean. I bought it in 1977 for $900!! A eight year old car with about 138K on it and that 383 was shot. Everyday I had to pull all the plugs and clean them if I wanted to get anywhere in it. Otherwise it ran like crap. The heads were gone. But it was perfect. It was white with a new black vinyl top on it. The two bucket seats in front were black leather and the back seat was black vinyl. with new black carpet in the car. The interior and exterior was like new. It didn't have a scratch on it, and I dragged a magnet all around it and it didn't have any bondo on it. So it hadn't been wrecked. I didn't understand how all they wanted for it was 900. But I didn't argue with the man, I paid cash for it.
Oh yeah, we were talking about my trans. weren't we? Ha, ha, ha! If got a bunch of pics of it to, thank god I had the presence of mind to take pictures of something I used to have. I know how to take a picture of a photo and transfer it to the computer. I'll do that tomorrow so you can see it.