RE: More transmission whoes! Fixed...Maybe! Kinda long.

[Kevin Merkley <krmerkley@xxxxxxxxx>]

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Hi Bill,

Have you looked at the kickdown linkage from the carb?

If there is not enough pressure on the valve from the kickdown linkage 
you can have goofy shifting.

The FSM tells how to adjust it and from what I read it is pretty 
important.

Please advise.

Thanks,

K.

WC43613@xxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> 
> I think I may have fixed the trans problem, either by luck or just 
> taking a  
> shot in the dark.
> I pulled the pan, (again, only 4th time), and looked closely at the 
> rooster  
> comb where it hits on the neutral safety switch. It wasn't dead center 
> on it 
> so  I turned the adjusting wheel until it was. Moved the shifter back 
> and forth 
> and  checked where it was on the rooster comb. Park was where it should 
> be so 
> I also  check to see where the shift valve was. Not sure exactly where 
> it 
> should be in  the valve body. 
> I put the shifter in neutral and in park to see if the motor would turn  
> over 
> and it did so I figured I was close.
> I took a chance and put the pan back on, filled it with fluid again.  
> Started 
> the car, put it in first, it went in gear, put it in second, the RPM  
> changed 
> as well as the speedo, put it in high gear, it went in also with a big  
> drop 
> in RPM. 
> Figured I might as well take her out on the road to test it. The shift  
> between 1st and 2nd was real quick without much of a RPM drop, (almost 
> like a  
> close ratio 4-speed would be), shifted into high, it shifted but with a 
> pretty  
> big lag going in.
> Tried it again shifting at about 4000, did the same thing.
> Not sure why there is such a big lag going into gear.
> I tried moving the adjustment one more hole going the same way I moved 
> it  
> before. Didn't try it again on the road because it was getting hot 
> again.  
> (Another problem I'm having even after buying a BeCool radiator.) May 
> have a bad  
> thermostat. Running a 160 degree one.
> Anyway, I'm going to try to readjust the kickdown band to see if that is 
>  
> where the lag is.
>  
> Thanks for all the suggestions and if someone has an idea about the 3rd  
> gear 
> lag, I'd appreciate hearing from you.
>  
> Thanks guys,
> Bill C.
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> 



Kevin R. Merkley
Thunder Bay, Ontario
64 Dodge 440 2dr HT (Cdn)

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