Ford-O-Matic - adjustment?

I will be going with ABC Transmission, gave them a call and I like the guy I talked with, hes 80 years old been in the same location for 50 years. Said he would be happy to do my transmission.

Said the overhaul would be $750 not including parts that needs to be replaced such as bands, clutch drums, or pumps.

Wont be taking it in to him any time soon though cause its a small family shop and hes waiting for a guy to bring in this 49 Oldsmobile to have the transmission built. I will shoot for next month or the month after.
 
Ummm, you could add your location (city, State) in your avatar so that everyone would know about where you are. That way, folks here who might happen to live in your area could recommend places that they have done business with and have placed trust in them.
For example if you mentioned you live in St Louis, Mo, or around there, I would tell you to check out Al's Transmission in Edwardsville, Illinois. They have rebuilt both my Ford-O-Matics at one time or another and did excellent work.
 
Daves55Sedan said:
Ummm, you could add your location (city, State) in your avatar so that everyone would know about where you are. That way, folks here who might happen to live in your area could recommend places that they have done business with and have placed trust in them.
For example if you mentioned you live in St Louis, Mo, or around there, I would tell you to check out Al's Transmission in Edwardsville, Illinois. They have rebuilt both my Ford-O-Matics at one time or another and did excellent work.
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True, I went ahead and added my information in.

I did a little messing with the car today checking out the knocking that I have when I load the car up on initial throttle hit. Was quite bad and adjusting the idle mixture screws out half a turn helped and second half a turn helped more.

Think I will be reverting my adjustments and move my accelerator pump from the summer setting to the winter setting and give that a go.

But while doing this I quite distinctly felt the transmission slip on me when I was power braking it trying to isolate the knock on initial throttle application.

So I am thinking about just having the old timer I think I will be using pull the pan and tell me what he thinks. I don't know about these old transmission but I have seen some automatics that you can see the clutch drum and band with the pan off. Maybe see if he thinks a simple band adjustment would be all I need that is if the bands aren't smoked already.

In any case I think I know what is happening though something is keeping the transmission from getting a good solid bite on the drum. Could be band out of adjustment, band worn out, drum worn out, or a servo that's leaking and not building enough line pressure up.
 
Your shop manual will give details on doing an air pressure check on the clutch packs and band servos. It's quite simple and will find any leaking servo or clutch piston.
 
Rusty, sounds like the family owned shop is the way to go. You can tinker with t forever, or just take it to that man and then you will have trouble free confidence forever.
 
40 Deluxe said:
Your shop manual will give details on doing an air pressure check on the clutch packs and band servos. It's quite simple and will find any leaking servo or clutch piston.
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I remember reading the air pressure check in the transmission manual as the initial check before disassembly/rebuild.

I might give it a go. Due to how long its been sitting I still think my best bang would be let the old timer at the local small family owned transmission shop just pull and rebuild it that way no more bad rubber parts.

Gene F said:
Rusty, sounds like the family owned shop is the way to go. You can tinker with t forever, or just take it to that man and then you will have trouble free confidence forever.
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That's why I keep going for just a rebuild. The only reason why I would consider a service to see if that would be enough is just to pinch a penny for the time being. But in the end it might buy me a few months and I would still be in the same boat of needing a over haul eventually.
 
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