Very informative video.I have a Hughes pan with blue Moroso gasket on my TH400 on the back of a 540ci bbc. When I had the 396 and th400. I had a speedway pan, noticed it didn't leak with a blue gasket and dropped the trans temp 10 degrees. Every since then been a fan of the deep cast pans. You bring up a great point about about the fixing the filter in place. I had never considered that. I'll look into updating that when I change the fluid next time.
Here is a lesson that I learned with aluminum pans. They are rigid and don't flex like the steel pan does. I made a mistake on the torque spec and over tightened the bolts and broke the flanges on the trans case. I have to disassemble the trans, and spent the biggest part of the day welding up where I broke it out. Some guys get picky about welded cases, I look at it like this, as long as it is welded good and don't leak it's good. The pan came in a box with nothing but the pan, so I torqued it like a stock pan. I would rather use the steel deep pan.
When I built my 4L80E I used the Sonnax adjustable reverse servo. I ended up using no spacers on the servo pin. All I did to set mine servo was push the piston 3/4 of the way in, and the reverse band engaged the direct drum solidly with hand pressure. Then I left it at that. I found that I cannot use deep sump transmission pans on my 4X4 truck because it leaves no room for the front drive shaft cardan joint. I had to go back to the factory steel pan because the factory pan has a cut away in the pan for front drive shaft clearance.
Shawn my old Matco guy sold Redback boots and sold them like crazy. Alot of people loved them. You need to get you some Redback socks, thyre really comfortable socks.
