Tranny Broke No Woke

Welding cast aluminum is sometimes a great challenge but if you take the time to prep it fully you can get some great results. This transmission out of a tug engine at the airport gives a great example of this.
Life is good! Cheers, Keith
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[jondavidmcnabb]

Honestly, I am surprised how well that cast aluminum welded. Most of the time it floats a huge amount of junk to the surface. Well done Sir!

[RickBaconsAdventures]

love the sass Keith, we should not be ashamed of wanting our fellow Americans to be productive and prosperous rather than misguided and miserable. Beautiful use of the old school machine, my grandpa always called tig welding heliarc from the real old days. I should try mixing some in on my dynasty 280 and see how it runs. The biggest thing I found is using the independent amperage setting to run higher amps on the EP than the EN by about 20-30% and then run like an 80-85% EN duty cycle balance. Lets a sharpened tip on the inverter machine last forever. Funny I can immediately recognize the bellhousing pattern and identify the transmission even though it's not "my" brand. I've learned so much from your videos in the past 10+ years, thank you. Keep fixing America!

[BrooksideFarmBarreMA]

I cannot express how hard you had me laughing, brother. Thanks, I needed that. 😂

Well done as usual, sir. 👍🏻

[dirtapple]

I'm surprised that broke, back when I was a twink I drove a tug at UPS. Governor broke on mine, I could bounce the front wheels with the throttle.

[stevenslater]

I had a friend, Dennis, who repaired many aluminum cylinder heads in the combustion chamber & valve seat areas with the early hypereutectic spray welding systems. Then he got some jobs where he needed to weld cracks or broken out pieces like Keith just did in this video segment.
We went and talked to the welding wizards at Ford’s transmission engineering division. (We were engineers at Engine Division). They showed Dennis how to gas weld aluminum. The big secret was to set the Oxy-Acetylene torch real rich and lay down a coating of smoke, then lean the torch out to welding flame and heat the area to be welded. As soon as the smoke burned off the metal was at correct temperature to gas weld the aluminum. Dennis got really proficient at gas welding aluminum. He said there is a very narrow temperature “window” between the smoke burning off and blowing right thru the parent aluminum, but with practice you get the feel of it.
Keith makes everything look routine, but electric welding like he did today looks a lot more manageable than the gas welding Dennis did back in the day.

[marcosmota]

If you need something porous and oily to be clean, lather it in plaster. Someone at work let a bucket of heavy oil sit at a hallway. The bucket had a tiny crack and the oil seeped into the floor. I later ran into a moldy bucket of drywall compound and decided to coat the oily spot on the cement floor with it. The compound dried like plaster and is syphoning the oil from the cement. I just chip it and start again.

[wheelieking]

I just have to say YOU! For calling it what it is. I'm a 54yr/old guy who grew up spinning wrenches calling that assembly on your bench a "tranny". We all know it is a transmission by its technical term. But, these guys that call it a "trans"? I'm sure it is perfectly innocent in a lot of cases. But, for a lot of the mainstream media car oriented personalities? Nope, it ain't! It's corporate. I've been watching your videos for a very long time (2010-ish). They don't pop up in my feed as much as they used to. But, this one did. And, I clicked on it for the title alone. The thumbnail could have been a blank white screen. And, I still would have clicked. Kudos to you good patriot! Thank you for your service.

[FredMiller]

Unless you have tried to do something like this yourself you can not appreciate the skills involved. Awesome job Keith...

[markstone]

They dhould have pulled the torque converter off before bringing the transmission to you. It just slipps on the output shaft.
MJ

[AmateurRedneckWorkshop]

Great repair. Thanks for the video keep on keeping on.

[ls]

Awesome job Keith! You've got the "arc shots" game figured out- You had me chuckling there at the end. Thanks!

[jimmyboles]

Enjoyed it Kieth keep the good work up, always enjoy your videos

[terrywitt]

Keith and old welder friend of mine taught us to blacken the aluminum like you do with your babit when you heat till the black goes away your at temp to weld but I haven’t tig mig or stick in long time extent repair I seen another automatic transmission break about same place

[PETERPan-fv]

A PLEASURE AS ALWAYS KEITH . KEEP THE TRANEYS HAPPY HI 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[candicebeebe]

That's a OLDIE, Parking brake on the out put shaft. Nice

[sixertogo]

amazing repair, in most cases that would have been a total loss, or a compleat case replacment

[jasyski]

Greetings from Cape Ann up north. Very cool auto darkening lens on the camera. The last time I had to weld cast aluminum it was a nightmare, the base material was Chinese garbage.

[iandibley]

Well done, Keith, a good result. I thought I might be the only one who accepts crappy aluminium jobs😅

[PhilG]

TIG welding Aluminum beats the snot out of a Carbon Arc torch, doesn't it? At a "temp gig" I had many years ago the boss came to me and asked me if I knew how to TIG weld. I said: "No, I've done almost every other kind of welding". Turns out he had an Aluminum part break and wanted to fix it "in house". I asked: "Do you have a MIG welder?" and he said: "You can't MIG weld Aluminum!" I said: "Yes I can, done it before." Looked at the welder and it was a piece of crap, no gas bottles filled, no spool of Aluminum wire, etc. I said: "This isn't going to work, but I know a welding shop about a half mile away from here. How about I take the part there and have them do it while I have lunch, and then bring it back when they're done?" He asked me: "Won't that be expensive?" Guy was a real cheapskate. I said: "It'll be cheaper than having the bottles filled and buying a spool of wire for one job." So that's what I did ...

[jimforsyth.]

Be nice to have the dowls to hold the plate in place