Wrap it up good in plastic and seal it with tape so it doesn't ooze oil
everywhere and destroy the box (or get confiscated as a toxic pollution
source). If you wrap it you can use the expanding foam for packing. A
cardboard box would probably need some kind of reinforcement, otherwise.
Appliance boxes usually have triple-thick corner pieces and double
bottoms, sometimes with a wood frame. The tranny is a long, awkward shape
with all the weight at one end. You don't want the shipper to be able to
wreck the box by picking it up at the wrong end, or stacking it. It might
just be easier to use a ton of the large bubblewrap and no box, if the
shipper will accept it. That way they know what they're grabbing.
FYI: I haven't shipped a tranny but I did ship an OD -- kind of a
miniature version <g>.
FWIW, YMMV...
Chris Attias had this to say:
>Does anyone have experience shipping a transmission UPS? How have
>you packed/protected it for the journey. I am about to send mine out
>for a rebuild, and could use some pointers. Thanks,
>
>Cheers,
>
>--
>Chris Attias
>Aptos, CA
>'64 MGB
>
>
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Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the red one with the silver bootlid.
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