Transmission VIN Code again
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Transmission VIN Code again
VIN code may be the wrong description, but every tranny has an ID #. It goes something like this; 4 (model year), YK (model, I think YK is a Corvette), M (hydramatic), 153 (day of year it was built), A (work shift). What I'm asking is YK the proper code for the Corvette? This is a tough one, but I am always amazed at the level of knowledge our forum members posess.
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Re: Transmission VIN Code again (94 Red Roadster)
In the VIN, the letter "Y" designates "Corvette" as you know. In the front of my 1984 - 1989 Corvette parts book, there is a "Transmission Identifcation Assembly Code to Transmission", list. This information is NOT exclusively, "Corvette". There are 9 different "MD8" (700R4) codes. They ALL are "Y?" codes. "YK" is one of them. If the information you seek is present on that tag, it cannot be decoded from my parts book. What is the source of your transmission? What is REALLY going on here?
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Re: Transmission VIN Code again (94 Red Roadster)
If you will refer back to your origional post, I answered this question, there, even though you didn't say what was going on there, either. Once the trans is rebuilt, the tag is worthless. What it IS, is what it was built up to be. What it WAS, has no bearing on what it is, today. The tag is rivited to the case. All the cases are interchangable. Any trans can be rebuilt to "Corvette" specs. Any Corvette trans can be rebuilt to generic specs. As I said previously, the only way to know what it IS, is the word of the builder, if you trust that word. The only OTHER way, is to disassemble it and see if it contains "Corvette" spec parts. THAT, sure was the long way around the block.
Reference: http://forums.corvetteforum.com/zerothread?id=735293
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Reference: http://forums.corvetteforum.com/zerothread?id=735293
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