Haunted Powerglide?

[thelawdoc]

UPDATE: Well I just picked up the truck from the shop. I had it home for the weekend and did some driving as the mechanic requested of me, and I gave it back to them this morning. Over the weekend, the truck drove without any problems, though I did not drive many tens of miles. Anyway, none of that matters anymore because when they gave me the truck now they said it is not fixed. They say they don't know whether the problem is a bad torque converter that we obtained from a rebuild shop or whether the front fuel pump is just no good. The only ideas they had were that we can try exchanging the torque converter and if that does not solve the issue, then "something" would have to be done with the front fuel pump -but for the latter, they will have to charge me. They opined that there is a third option: dump the Powerglide and drop in a TH350, which would run me about $1200 "more or less." I did not want to make any decision on the spot -and anyway, they would not be able to do anything this week so there is no need that I decide right this minute.

When I drove her home from the shop, a distance of less than a mile, a sound was coming from her that resembled that of a screw gun when mounting boards of sheet rock. It occurred three, maybe four times, during acceleration, lasting about a second each time. I never heard a sound like that from my truck before, nor have I ever heard such a noise from any other vehicle. I feel irritated. When I brought the truck to the shop two weeks ago, she was driving perfectly -all I had was leaking front and rear seals. I feel stupid now about having gone for a rebuild. (Excuse my whining.)

I have received a couple tranny shop referrals from SK Racing out on Long Island. I had approached them by email a few days ago inquiring as to whether they can examine/service my Powerglide. But they responded that they do not work on automatic Powerglides. It was my hope that the racing crowd would get to the bottom of whatever is ailing my Powerglide.

What do you guys think? Swap for the TH350 -or persist in rooting out the gremlins from the Powerglide? Swap the shop? And as for the money spent on the rebuild, forget it? -Alden