Yeah! That thing is a huge mess!!!
Bunch of hoses in steering system have blisters in them and rub on each other.
Spaghetti lines are cracking and two of them leaking.
Almost all the harness pigtails have insulation coming off of the wires as soon as you touch them.
Drive line is the “cleanest” part out off the whole cluster and constantly dripping oil for 5 days straight now, looks like I was right about scavenging problems and overfilling of the transmission. And looks like both seals are blown.
Suction hose for charge and converter-cooler pump looking all mushy and kinked. The transmission breather was buried under at least 1” of crusty dirt (besides neglect - I blame CATs stupidity of not insulating A/C low pressure/return lines, which was sweating continuously, mixing with dust and making mud).
Although there was supposed to be some kind of case pressure relief through dipstick tube.
Torque Converter looks all covered in oil.
Had a long and hard talk with the owner, he wants it fixed good now, after a few times it was “fixed” just to have another problem come up.
Getting quotes for some of the smaller harnesses to see if it will be feasible to buy them VS re pin and splice.
The only problem - I don’t know when I am going to do all of this! I am swamped with other work, and owner is hell bent on me doing the work, because I am “an anal stickler”!!!
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