4L60E 13-Vane Rotor Failure (Pics)

[Vince_B]

Ron just so you know I dropped the rotor guide in the mail today. You should see it some time this week. Good luck once again. Vince

[1BADC10]

Ron just so you know I dropped the rotor guide in the mail today. You should see it some time this week. Good luck once again. Vince

Thanks dude... meant to call you back yesterday. I found one locally too. I truly appreciate the help there. It'll sit on a shelf with a few more "spare" parts. I got everything back together, and then... wouldn't ya know it. Just when I think I'm about to send Murphy packing, that mofo finds another way to test my patience.

Me being happy-go-lucky, I decide to get to work on the trans. Everything's going great until I get everything bolted back in the truck. As I'm reconnecting the stock trans lines, I noticed a trace of fluid drippage midway down the metal portion that connects to the trans. Wiped it off, nothing else there... so, no biggie. I go to start the truck, and fill with fluid. After a gallon goes in, I'm looking at a thickening mist of white smoke.... WTF??? I look under the truck to find an ever growing puddle of my cheap red fluid hitting the concrete.

Turns out that little drip earlier was signs of a larger than a pinhole in the line. I'll be working on my JB Weld skills sometime next week. Any bets on that holding up? I'm just a poor, unlucky bastard!

[Vince_B]

JB weld on a cooler line??????? You scare the hell out of me.

[1BADC10]

JB weld on a cooler line??????? You scare the hell out of me.

Seen it done before... even on the cooler itself.

Just cut it, double flair it and use a union.

Hence, why I haven't bothered to mess with it. Looking into a better alternative. I'll have to look up the line size. I don't remember...

HEY VINCE, what's the line size?!?!

[1BADC10]

Uploaded some pics...

Two busted rotor guide (plastic) & one good one. Take a look at the assembly instructions to see where the new one goes.



Step-by-step (nothing fancy)








Mate that side with the one below, and you're done.




BTW... that lil plastic guide only fits on one side of the rotor. There are tabs for alignment. I didn't show a pic where I slid that plastic piece against the rotor before placing it into that half of the pump. Hard to mess that up.


Also... I bought compression fitting to take care of the line leak. Gonna cut it, and join the two ends... whenever I get the motivation to get back under the truck.

[RedHeartbeat]

Did you check the mating surfaces to see that they are totally flat before you bolted the halves together? I used some real long hose clamps to line up the OD halves, FWIW.