Has anyone had luck rebuilding the Saab F-35 Trans? Does any one know of a company that may do this? What about parts source of soft goods and bearings? Buying a rebuild from GM is very costly. Just wanted to handle it myself.

 

Try performance autowerks

 

Pretty sure it requires specialty tools and very strict tolerances. I'd get a shop to do it.

 

The problem is finding a shop that can/will do it. If I can find the bearings/tools may have to try. Have made MANY calls. If you know of any please let me know!!

 

Thanks! Will give them a look..

 

I know Pwerks can and will.

 

Found the culprit of my transaxle noise. My pinion bearing inner race was just a little messed up.glad I caught it in time.

 

thanks!! I got lucky and was able to track a place down that was a little over 100mi. away.

 

What was the noise u had and did u replace this part of a shop

 

Hard sound to put into words but a strange hum of a bearing going out. Here is the culprit.

 

Ok was it a humming that was speed related or just the same sound at any speed
Also did a shop do this work for u or is it something that can be done without a shop

 

Got the car all back together and in the meantime replaced the slave cylinder. Come to find out the slave cylinder is a faulty one and have to take the car apart again . because the part was not installed by a GM authorized dealer and it was by me, the warranty on the part is useless. Chevy dealer wants more to determine the part is defective (which they would never do it would always be something else's fault ) than the part is worth. all I can say my best investment I ever did was putting a lift in the garage.

 

It was my pinion bearing and it was wheel speed related and you have to find a shop special tools to do it. We would've done it ourselves but did not have the special tools and was told the tools to do it would not be cheap.

 

 

Was it the Lnf one or an lsj. Lnf I hear is better. Bleeding it correctly is critical to not blow it out.

 

Since I have an Lnf that's the one I got. it was bled properly. There was a bad batch of slave cylinders out there from what I have read and I think I got one of them :-)

 

It's hit or miss. Some are ok some not.

 

It sux... what a pain in the ass project. could not imagine doing this without the lift.

 

round 3

 

Yeah a lift definitely makes it a lot easier.