 going on MoparFam. Hope everybody out there is having a fantastic time. So today, you're probably wondering, what in the world are we doing here? So, long story short, Scott Long, some of you guys probably already know him. He has the little red express ram truck that's all over the internet. Can't miss it. It's a red regular cab ram and he's got the little red express stickers on the side of the door to basically make the truck look like the little red express. Anywho, this is his old 545 RFE transmission and this is his stall converter that was in that transmission as well. This is an edge racing stall converter and I believe this is a 3400 stall. So, I bought this whole package basically. He was selling it mainly for the stall converter. The stall converter is basically brand new. It's got very little passes on it and I wanted the converter to put in frostbite. But he threw in the whole transmission for the price of the converter which was basically a steal of a deal. He did have this transmission actually recently completely rebuilt. It has all brand new parts in it and after the rebuild he went out and he did a few passes with it and it actually failed. Second gear he said is slipping and that is why he removed the transmission and he actually did a GM transmission swap on his truck with a trans brake. Very cool truck, very cool build. So, what I want to do is we're going to tear this transmission apart and we're going to find out why it sucks, what failed with it and if we can fix it. So, my plan is I kind of want to put a fresh transmission in frostbite before I put the stall converter in. The transmission in frostbite as we speak right now is working perfectly fine but I kind of hate to pull that transmission down, put the converter in it and then something happens down the road. I have 150,000 miles on that transmission and it's still working good. We have a ton of drag racing on that transmission. I've towed my boat with that transmission and it's been great. But with that said it's probably getting close and with me taking it down I'd rather put either a new one in it or a fresh one in replace of it and then the old one we can go through have it rebuilt or rebuild it ourselves. That's my plan is I really want to take this thing apart, find out what happened. I kind of have a feeling that the second gear clutch pack probably failed in this thing but I have no idea. So, we're going to tear it apart, we're going to find out what broke and see if we can fix it. All right, so the first thing we're going to do guys is we're going to pull our input and output speed sensors out which are these guys right here. It's going to take an eight millimeter socket so let's get them out. The one closest to the bell housing, this is supposed to be the input speed sensor right here and just kind of wiggle it back and forth and it'll come right out just like so. So we're going to lay that down, we're going to do the same thing to the output speed sensor. That one's out, so let's get to the next step. All right, next thing we're going to do we're going to spend this transmission around and we're going to take the line pressure sensor out and that would be this guy down here, same tool, eight millimeter socket, about a bang and I like to thread my bolts back in just a little bit that way I know where they went but that is up to you. All right, so the next thing we're going to do guys is we're going to spin this thing over again and right here in the front of this bell housing is a big giant huge snap ring. So we're going to pop this snap ring out and basically what you're going to do is you're going to look around and you should see a gap and you're going to get on the edge of that snap ring with like a flat head screwdriver usually works and pop it out. So here we go. Once you get it popped up, then you just kind of work it around and one giant huge snap ring is out. All right guys, so the next step we're going to do is we're going to rotate the transmission over on its side and get the transmission pan off. We got it flipped over, so we're going to take the couple of screws out that's holding the pan on, eight millimeter as well and the fluid has been drained in this transmission, but no matter what, you will always still find more transmission fluid inside an automatic transmission. I don't care what you do, so it's always going to be messy, so just be prepared to have a bunch of rags, buckets and stuff to be ready to catch the mess. There we go. So we got the pan off and the fluid don't look terrible, but you can definitely smell, it's got kind of a burnt smell to it. All right, so the next thing we're going to do guys is we're going to take our filters off. We're going to unscrew the canister filter first in order to get the big filter off. The big filter has a little T25 torch screw right here. When you take that screw off, you actually have to rotate this filter slightly down in this case because there's a little bracket right here that kind of holds it up and it won't come all the way out until you slide out that bracket first. And with this filter being on, you cannot swing it down low enough to get it out of the bracket, so we got to remove this filter first. For that, you can use a big pair of channel locks. You can jab a screwdriver through it because you can be putting a new one on anyways or have some oil filter pliers. Go, got the filter off and we're just going to put it in our bucket for right now. Now we're going to get our T25 torx and we're going to take the screw out for the big filter and then we're going to swing this filter down out of this bracket and then we'll pull it straight down and it should pop out. As you see, it's basically just a long tube and it pops into a seal. It kind of smells about like burnt rear-end fluid. I don't know if that justifies it, but I said the fluid's not really dark. It's not really black, but you can definitely smell it. Alright, so next step is we're going to undo the bolts holding our valve body in. So we're going to get those loose. Those are 8mm screws as well. And they're usually, if you look, you'll see them on the outside going around. You don't have to mess with any of these torx screws. That is what's holding the whole sandwich assembly together, so you want to take out the 8mm screws only. So here we go. So we've got those out. I'm going to move some tools and we're definitely losing some more fluid here. And that's why I said no matter how much you drain these things, the valve bodies are going to hold fluid. The pump's going to hold fluid. Just fluid everywhere, so just be prepared. Alright, so now that we have all of our screws out of the valve body, and for reference there was one, two, three, four, five, six screws. So now that we've got them out, we're going to pull this whole assembly down and you basically just give it a gentle pull down. The big wiring connector on the top side of the transmission where your harness plugs into, that will pull through as well. A little bit of weight shift there, so be prepared for that. So there we go. We have the valve body out and yeah, it definitely smells. Now that this is out, I can really smell these clutches, so definitely something in here got cooked, that's for sure. So for right now we're just going to lay this in the transmission pan. Alright guys, so the next thing we're going to do is we rotate our transmission a little bit and you're going to need a screwdriver, like a long flathead, or a small pry bar or something, and we're going to pry out this front cover right here that's in front of the pump. And to do that, there's a little access hole back here. Try to bring you guys with me. So right here we're going to stick a screwdriver in this hole and you'll actually pry the backside of that cover and it'll pop out. Alright, so here we go. A flashlight will also help. Make sure you're prying on the right thing. So we're going to get it in there and then we'll start prying and we'll just kind of watch it start moving out here. And don't be afraid to hurt this because if you're rebuilding the transmission, you're going to put a new one in anyway, so don't worry about tweaking it, bending it, or dingin' it or whatever. It's going to get a new one. So with that out of the way, I'm going to spin this guy so you can see it. Whoa, nearly. Alright, so now this is your front pump. This is your pump assembly right here. That's what basically makes everything happen, the pressure, everything, so that is the pump. Alright, so the next step guys is we're going to take out our pump assembly. There is some 10 millimeter bolts we got to take out. There's one, two, three, four, five, six bolts, so we're going to get our impact and take those out. All six bolts out. We're going to collect them up and we'll just lay them on that front pump cover. Now this technically should just kind of pop out. If not, sometimes you can in the same spot where we pried the front cover out, you can pry right there and push it out too. But it looks like it's coming out. Alright, so there is our pump assembly right here. Alright, so just checking this out real quick. I don't really see anything going on here, but you can take these apart and inspect them better. But for right now we're just going to put it to the side. Alright, so the next thing we're going to do guys is we're going to pull out this big drum. The first drum right here, we're going to pull that out. Got the drum assembly out, we're going to lay it on the table. So there's also, there's, you have clutch packs in here. This is going to be for your overdrive assembly. So we'll check those out. Most likely they're probably toast. So next on the list and with his complaint that he said second gear was slipping really bad, most likely is going to be this next assembly. So there's another big snap ring inside here. Right here it goes all the way around. And we're going to take that snap ring out and that is your two four clutch pack. So most likely that's going to be the clutches that's most likely burnt up or something's going on with that. As second gear he said was only complaint that was slipping. So we're going to get that snap ring out. We're going to get our big screwdriver and pop it out. This snap ring is much stiffer than the other one. It's a lot stronger so you do have to kind of take your time to get it out. But just work your way around. There's a bunch of screwdriver holes there for you to be able to pry it out with. Got that snap ring out. Like I said that one's much beefier, a lot stiffer than the one in the front. All right so now that we got our big snap ring out we're going to pull out this next section. It won't look like anything's bad there. It looks like the bushings, the bearings are still good. So we're going to have one more snap ring in here. We're going to have to pop out. This one is much easier to get out than the other one. All right so we're going to pull out this gear assembly in here. So this is the planetary gears. Kind of like a rear end, more or less. You can see the gear in the center here. Then you got three side gears. And then you got a gear on the back. Then you have a flat bearing right here so make sure that stays in place. I don't see gears seem to be okay. I don't see anything wrong with the gears. No chips or anything. And we should be able to pull out the first set of clutch packs right here. So we'll pull them out. And we're going to keep these together because they go one way. Yeah those got hot. So let's see what we got here. Houston I think we found the problem. So I'm going to take this apart right here. And you can see kind of the golding on that. Look at the backside of this. See all that purple color? Completely smoked. Definitely got hot. Some more smoke right there. I don't know why this transmission failed so quick with having a fresh rebuild. But yeah something did not go good. But these clutches right here are absolutely toast. They are fried. That is why it's slipping in second gear. And like I said again kind of like the rear end like an LSD unit. These are friction discs. They got basically like a clutch material friction material on them. And it makes a sandwich. And that's basically what applies the pressure to get your power to your tires. So when those discs wear out by by transmission it just starts to slip. So that's basically what's going on when your transmission takes a dump. And it starts to slip. It's because these clutch packs in here are worn out and they're not gripping anymore. So it cannot do what it needs to do. So I mean yeah this transmission can be fixed pretty easily. And you know if you did it yourself pretty cheap. A rebuild kit a master rebuild kit with new clutches seals everything you can usually get under 400 bucks from what I've seen. But that's what's going on with it. So yeah. So there you go guys. That is what happens usually to your RFE transmission when it starts to slip. Starts not to pull anymore. Starts to do the hokey pokey. Whatever you want to call it. The clutch packs are going to be toast. Not the end of the world. They can be rebuilt. But it's up to you. Again really tearing this thing down was not that bad. There's still some more to go. We still got some more sections to go to get to the other clutches. But I think I'm going to call it a day for tonight. It's getting late. And I got to the part that I wanted to which was what we expected. Clutch pack toast. So I hope that gives you a good idea of what's going on when that scenario happens. You know what kind of goes into taking an automatic transmission apart. What kind of tools you may need. And so forth. So other than that guys don't forget hit that subscribe button. Tap the bell button for the notifications. And we'll see you on the next one. Peace.