So third gear let go today in the "new" mustang. So all I have is 1 and 2. I stopped by a shop, and the guy told me it will be between 8-900 to fix it. I think I am gonna try to find a rebuilt one and just put it in myself. Anyway, I was gonna put disc brakes all the way around it, now I guess that project is gonna be put off for awhile. The mrs. is gonna be p1ssed [:@]

Would it be better tohave him fixit, or just try and find a new one? Does that sound like a fair price to rebuild it? I have never dropped a tranny, so I have pretty much no expierience with it.

 

After reading this tech article, decide if you think you have the right tools and enough wrenching experience to overhaul the C4 yourself.
http://www.customclassictrucks.com/t...ssion_rebuild/

 

for 749.99 in JEGS u could buy a street fighter tranny from TCI that can handle up to 450 hp.I had my C4 rebuilt for 375. Like soaring said read the article and decide for yourself, but i've always heard it's pretty tricky.

 

Thanks much for the article. I looked today, but didnt find anything with that much detail. Not sure I am gonna tackle that one, maybe I will have to pay to rebuild it. Thanks again.

 

Yeah, I am a pretty good handyman and shade tree mechanic, but there are just some things I know I can't ans won't tackle, and one of those is overhauling an automatic transmission. See if you have a local guy who does this stuff. When I had my old Jeepster, I looked in the Houston paper and found a local guy who rebuilt the C4 for about 200 bux. Now, granted, that was several years ago, but you ought to be able to find a rebuilder for around 5 hunnerd.

 

Glen, we had a jeepster growing up (late 50s, early 60s). It was classic, but hardly anyone knows about them.My dad was not a collector, per se, but he had a big shed and enough money to buy goofy cars: a 47 CJ2 Jeep, no top, that we plowed snow with in the Minn winters; an early 50s (I think) Jeepster (they came back with it for a bit in the 60s, I think)...the Jeep sports car, they called it; a VW The Thing; a Morris Minor, etc.

This would be a good string...first car, first meaningful car, or a list of favorite cars owned. My first real car I think I claimed in another post was my 56 Chevy 210 hardtop(not a BelAir, mind you...this was the economy model) that I got at high school graduation in 1967. But the first car that was really mine and not shared was a 47 Jeep station wagon I got a couple years earlier; 4 banger and electric overdrive, vacuum wipers, etc. Totaled it in a head-on collision at age 16. No seat belts...when I came to, I was back in the storage area with no injuries except for bruises; my buddy was thrown out; same condition...nice settlement allowed me to buy a 62 Lark Daytona (at my Dad's insistence); this was fall of 1965, mind you...I could have got a mustang, but no, I got a Studebaker and it was 40 years until I got my stang! Next acquisition is definitely a Jeep "Jungle Wagon" in the classic maroon and cream.

 

I finished rebuilding my c4 in my 66 coupe last year. This was the biggest thing i ever did on ANY car.

Buy a video on how to do it and a shop manual. Find someone friendly at a local transmission shop and try it. I learned a lot and had a lot of fun

 

The guy at the tranny shop I took it to has a 67 that he is rebuilding right now. I didnt ask him about rebuilding it. I wonder how much the price would come down if I pulled it and reinstalled it and only had him rebuild it. I will check that today.

 

Make sure you check the modulator hose. That happened to me the hose just poped off and saved me $800.

 

I've rebuilt 2 C-4's, and just finished my first AOD(keeping my fingers crossed). The C-4 isn't that hard, the worst part is compressing the springs in the clutches while installing the clips. The kits are only around a hundred or so, but if you really aren't comfortable doing it yourself, check around at afew local places and find out what your options are (provide all the parts, remove and install yourself, etc...). When i did the aod, had to get a few parts locally and found 3 trans shops within about 3 miles that were really friendly, one pressed a bushing for me no charge,and another mentioned adriveshaft shop within a mile of me that I didn't even know was there.