so i got the 242 back in, function tested only in the garage. i will see tomorrow if all is good on it

 

I'm sure its okay

 

thanks for the vote of confidence, lol but i'm just a worry-er. always thinkin that i forgot something hahah

 

Ha ha me too I had a lock ring left over from my sye, I took th case back apart ha ha, it was an extra

 

Hopefully one day mine will look something like that. looks killer man

 

haha, yeah, luckily i had no left over spare parts, drove it around, and it seems to be holding up alright, got in 4 full-time, and that worked well, drove it to the shop and had them weld on a new cat. headers should be next

 

Thanks Jagger96, just keep motivated & keep workin at it!

 

How much better is it?

 

t-case temp is about 40 degrees cooler (runnin at 230 to 260 F now instead of 270 to 300 F) shifts great too, but i haven't gone offroad yet though. cat is runnin round 230 to 250 F now, but i still have some hot spots in the exhaust. the expansion bulb right at the front of the tranny is runnin round 428 F, that's effin hot imo. so now i wanna get some headers & run some new stainless pipe to see if that fix's it.

 

Wow I didn't know it had as big of an effect on things like that

 

i didn't either, and i can't make sense of it really, but i noticed while shootin temps, that all the hot spots were on the old rusted pipe. i guess it lets the heat through easier to the surface of the pipe

 

Well the rust on the inside, outside of the pipe allow the pipe to heat up faster (beacuse its thiner) wow though ill be doing all new pipe now and headers

 

yeah, if you can do it yourself, it will be way worth it. i just remembered why i do all the installations my self, cost me a little under $500 just to get a new cat installed (granted the cat was a top of the line cat that was over $300, but that is still way too much for me to justify it)

 

50% parts 50% labor that's the standard

 

yeah, but i know if i woulda hunted on ebay & google, i coulda gotten the same cat for under $200, then just hacked out the old one, and welded the new one in. i think i will do the rest of the exhaust my self. the only part i will dread is the headers, but it will be manageable i'm sure.