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Old 10-17-2011, 01:50 PM
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I recently had to replace my transmission and now I'm trying to figure out where to take the bad one. Any suggestions? When I replaced the engine I had disassembled and powerwashed it to clean any remaining fluids, then just took it to the local metal recycler for scrap. I can't do this easily on the transmission side, too much stuff to take apart, so is there a place that would take it as a core, etc?
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Maybe try a local tranny shop...
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I would just tear it apart, clean it, and use the parts to make cool stuff around my house (gear doorknobs, a table made out of the split cases with a section of glass laid over the top, and bolts holding it to the split case (so you could see the internals) and whatnot.

Then again, I like to tinker, and I'm an art major.

You could always just sell it for scrap, or to someone who races the tc and knows how to rebuild them?
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I'll try the local transmission shops; tranny shop, that just sounds wrong. Oh, and it's an xB automatic transmission, not too much demand for racers.
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