Matt... you're killing me here! How'* the progress? I am extremely interested in tearing my tranny apart with MyLittleBlackBird, and your experience and advice in this process will be invaluable. Hopefully you're having success.

Lol - it'* slow going. I'm stalled right now, as I didn't finish up before the weekend. So now my car is torn apart in Grand Rapids, and I'm here at work in Pontiac...

It'* now officially a weekend project. It'll be another two weeks at earliest before I can get back to GR and hopefully finish it up.

In the mean time, I picked up a beater 95 LSS that needed someone to love it.

Slow and steady wins the race.... or something like that

I just don't want to miss out on all the juicy details when everything is said and done. I would love it if Doug and I could dig into my tranny, and I think your knowledge will be invaluable. I wish you the best with this job, and hope things start to go a little more smoothly for you!

Hey guys I just got my 99 SSEi looked at because of the check engine light. Come to find out it was a tranny code. I need to know the transmission shifts smooth but skips 3rd gear. I was told that it could be the valve body on the tranny itself, or I might need a brand new tranny. My question is if I need a new tranny wouldn't the fluid be brown and smell really burnt? The dealer said the fluid was clean and did not smell burnt. I want some opinions from you guys before I do anything. Thanks.

A.J.

buy a gm replacement tranny, then sell me your old one (cheap of course, it is broke)

You should probably start your own 92-99 topic or search for existing topics that relate to your question. This thread is more about Matt'* attempt to rebuild his own transmission, and whether or not the procedures are easy enough for other shadetree mechanics.

Just my 2 cents.

How'* it coming Matt? If you need some help, let me know. As you might already know, mine is out and stripped to the main shaft on my bench.

Here'* my thread...
http://www.bonnevilleclub.com/forum/...ic.php?t=58140

I don't have the time right now to make a full post of the weekend happenings, but I'm far less than thrilled about Napa.

The short version is the clutches in my rebuild kit looked a little funnah, and upon further inspection, the kit that they gave me for the '96 was a 91-94 rebuild kit.

Grr... it wasted a weekend, and I need to get a hold of a new rebuild kit.

But I'll make a full post here soon. Might need to de-sticky me for a few months until I have another shot at this... this is the second time I've been foiled in my plans because of miscellaneous screwups...

Keep plugging at it. I want all the gorey details.

well my 97 boni does the same and i would go hole trany for the fact of all 97 bonis have a factory defect and causes them to give out at low miles and i think that the hole would be safest .but the valve body would help out on the problem a little and it is hard to do with front wheel drive cars so more power to you.