Thread: Pig-in-a-poke

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I bought one. It came as a wrecking yard th350 trans.
When I was young,on the 'hollor' we lived on there was a carryout that sold the kids pig-in-a-poke. You paid 10 cents for a tied together bag of,,,,whatever .Non-refundable.
And sometimes you got some candy,small toy,etc.,that was worth more than a dime.SOMETIMES,,,,,you were made a pig because the contents wouldn't be worth 5 cents let along 10 cents.It was indeed a gamble for a dirt poor hillbilly kid.
Enter......... ..........wrecking yard motors & trannies. Now it may be fine,don't know yet.But what would you do before installing it.Take it to a transmission shop for an inspection and get another pig-in-a-poke from their sales pitch?

I'd pull the pan, and if there was no metal in the pan I'd put a new filter in ,bolt the pan back on, knock a new front and rear seal in and put it in the car. I've installed a lot of used trans. over the yrs. with good luck.

ps- didn't you get a guarantee?

Yeah,they gave a 30 day warranty. Thanks,sounds very logical.

Yep, everything lt1s10 said. I also like to buy motors and transmissions from cars that were hit in the rear end. At least you know they were running up until that fatal moment.


Don

Don maybe they werent running and thats why they got hit in the rear

pick the car that the top is smashed in, you know he was flying.

smell the torque converter. If the fluid in the converter smells burnt, get a new one.

firebird77clone, the converter that came with it was what made it a nickle bag. I didn't even look at the converter when I picked it up because I won't use it,I plan on buying around a 3000 stall converter.But when I took the thing off to drain it I noticed that two of the three bolt holes are drilled(elongated).Now I never professed to know alot,but how did that thing work? My first thoughts were,#1 It was a junk converter laying around they threw in on the way out the door or #2 That maybe the reason it was in the junkyard? If it was drilled out to fit??? How would it have worked,with one bolt holding it stationary,wouldn't it move under acceleration? As far as the smell,,,it smells,,,maybe a little burnt and is dark red,darker than what comes out of the can. The converter is blue colored also,I thought GM's were all black?