Chris,Very timely email, thanx. My 60 is going in for a tranny rebuild in Ssptember. It leaks after sitting but it sat for 26 years so I think it's the rubber bushing at the input shaft. I'll question the guy who's doing the rebuild about reassembling it as George Riehl suggests.
Thanx Tom----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Hawkins" <imperial1966@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 10:31 AM Subject: IML: Lake Torqueflite
Does your Torqueflite leave a pool of trans fluid after long periods of storage? It's a common problem for many. The Chrysler 300 Club had had a recent thread regarding this issue. Although some discussion involved the suspected culprit being the check valve or bushing between the torque converter and the trans, someone else suggested a shift kit as a cure. Then George Riehl gave another possible source of leakage that I had never heard before. Below is a recent exchange between a 300 Club member and George Riehl - probably the pre-eminent Torqueflite rebuilder in the country. (Most show-worthy 300 Letter cars have had their transmissions rebuilt by him.) Here the exchange: -----------------------------------------------------Regarding the torqueflite leakage problem. I havethe same problem with my 300-H. The leakage is inconsistent. Sometimes it will leak after setting two days and sometimes it takes more than a week. I store mine all winter and if I don't take a gallon of transmission fluid with me when I get it out in the spring it won't move.Has anyone tried replacing this check valve andsolved the problem? Where is the valve located? Is it a big job to change it? Any one with experience in this area?Rolland Westra, Rockford, ILGeorge Riehl responded:After a Cast Iron torqueflite is rebuilt and thereis a problem with leakage, one cause can be when installing, placing the tranny up to the Torque converter, care must be taken not to cut the seal with the converter hub. The trans must be guided with guide pins and go squarely onto the bellhousing.In my many years of rebuilding, there has never beena shift kit available for a Cast Iron Torqueflite, only for 1962 up Aluminum torqueflites.After complaints of leakage after the car sits forawhile, it signifies that the shift cable outer rubber housing has punctures/cuts. After advising people to check the cable housing, they find there are cuts, burnt spots and "swelling" of the outer housing. That outer covering is there to prevent the fluid, which travels up the cable, near the connection at the transmission, from leaking out when the car is at rest. Usually takes 3 - 5 days for a leak to appear. Pure and simple. Some of the housing can be repaired with silicone or the bad section has to be cut out and the housing slid down and refastened with a clamp or brass wire to the solid end of the cable. The actual outer wire of the housing is not fluid proof. That is why it has the outer rubber housing. When the car is a rest, the fluid drains out of the clutch packs, etc., and the fliud level rises in the tranny then up the cable. Instructions on the dipstick always tells one to never check the fluid level without the car running, and only when the fluid is warm and in neutral. Simple instructions, but important. George Riehl ---------------------------------------------------- Note, I am assuming the "housing" George mentions is actually the rubber tubing surrounding the shift cable (on pre-65 models) as it comes out of the trans. Repairing any problems with this rubber housing might be all that is needed, in many cases, to prevent Lake Torqueflite from forming under our Imperials after long periods of storage. Not sure it this applies to '66 and later models, but it is worth looking into. Chris H. ----- Original Message ----- From: <RWestra@xxxxxxx> To: <Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 2:17 PM Subject: [Chrysler300] Torqueflite leakage __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ----------------- http://www.imperialclub.com ----------------- This message was sent to you by the Imperial Mailing List. Please reply to mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and your response will be shared with everyone. Private messages (and attachments) for the Administrators should be sent to webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxTo UN-SUBSCRIBE, go to http://imperialclub.com/unsubscribe.htm
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