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well how much fluid goes in a powerglide with the convertor empty?

http://www.tciauto.com/tech_info/fluid_capacity.htm

.......... and a deeper aftermarket pan can add anywhere for 2 to 4 additional quarts.
Aftermarket trans cooler and lines will add extra also.

Originally posted by viking
http://www.tciauto.com/tech_info/fluid_capacity.htm

Those fig. looks a little low to me. its been awhile sense ive rebuilt either one, but i must have poured a couple qts. on the ground. they should know.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by lt1s10
Those fig. looks a little low to me. its been awhile sense ive rebuilt either one, but i must have poured a couple qts. on the ground. they should know. [/QUOTE

Make sure you are adding converter & trans capacitys, so his glide would be between 6 and 9 quarts, I know the 10 quarts for the 400 is correct.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by viking

Originally posted by lt1s10
Those fig. looks a little low to me. its been awhile sense ive rebuilt either one, but i must have poured a couple qts. on the ground. they should know. [/QUOTE

Make sure you are adding converter & trans capacitys, so his glide would be between 6 and 9 quarts, I know the 10 quarts for the 400 is correct.

i know my memory is going and all that, but in the 70s i rebuilt about 200 of those things, 350-400-powerglides and anything under 10 qts with a new conv. just dont sound right. i think i had a lot of trans. driving around with 2 qts. to much oil. could be wrong, but in my mind, new trans,new conv. blow out the lines, 12 qts. 400, 350 11 qts. and 10 qts in the glide. im not argue with them, just wondering where i put all that fluid.

Originally posted by DennyW
I always put in 5 quarts, start it, check it, run through the gears, recheck it, and button it up, hahaha.

Me to, but according to them you couldn't get 5 qts in a pg before you started it up. im sure they are right, but im also sure i put more than that in them. wish i had my gm 400 trains serv. manuals, but all of them burned in the fire. the trans. cooler and lines must hold more than i think.

I never checked but I'd guess the lines and cooler would hold around two quarts

Originally posted by viking
I never checked but I'd guess the lines and cooler would hold around two quarts

i never though much about it, but all i did for 4 yrs is rebuild these things and those # just came off the top of my head, but its something you do untill its full and you dont count the cans every time, but those # came to mind, and i would blow the lines out everytime, so hope thats the answer.

Originally posted by lt1s10
i never though much about it, but all i did for 4 yrs is rebuild these things and those # just came off the top of my head, but its something you do untill its full and you dont count the cans every time, but those # came to mind, and i would blow the lines out everytime, so hope thats the answer.

Mabey they put less in those metal topped/heavy paper/open with can opener type oil cans than in these plastic bottles

Sooooooooooo when ya going to chop the 10 ?

Originally posted by viking
Mabey they put less in those metal topped/heavy paper/open with can opener type oil cans than in these plastic bottles

Sooooooooooo when ya going to chop the 10 ?

sure would look good. i looked into that a long time ago about doing a el camino and after checking on the glass i lost interest in done it. id love to do it but my health wont let me do much anymore and i dont pay other people to work on my stuff. i do all of my work except the paint and i have done that. i like to build them, then i get tired of them and wont something dif. i might have to hang on to this one.

Yeah a really cool truck, it's a keeper

Originally posted by viking
Yeah a really cool truck, it's a keeper

thanks!

Nice truck

Where does all the extra oil go ? the pumps probably filling up the torque converter 1st time you start it up. A lot of fluid goes into that donut.

The thing I want to figure though, you fill the converter half full on the bench before you slot it into the trans, then when, the pump is pumping all that fluid into the top half of the converter, is all the air displaced by the fluid or does some of it get compressed in the converter. It's just a thought that comes back and "haunts" me from time to time.

Originally posted by DennyW
When you have it running, the pump pumps the fluid under pressure, fills the converter and all the passages all the way up, and all the air passes out through the system into the pan. The converter is full of fluid.

Well thats good then, I'm looking at the time here, it's 9pm 23/11 , are you up awfully late or awfully early over there ?