Re: [FWDLK] Charging/Braking Questions

[eastern sierra Adj Services <esierraadj@xxxxxxxxx>]

I had the same situation in/with my car: very  slow initial R and, then,
Forward gear engagement.

Once the car got moving, all subsequent  shifts were perfect.

Dave Homstad suggested a complete flushing of the trannie fluid, even
though the existing fluid was not ''very' old, and appeared to be fine.

Fortunately, I'd converted to a liquid cooled trannie, which has
plumbing lines running to a trannie cooler which is installed in the
radiator's lower tank.

All I had to do was disconnect one of the radiator's trannie cooler line
connnections, and turn on the car, to drain the trannie in mere seconds.

If you have an air-cooled trannie, and have to remove the transmission
pan  to drain it, you'll need to get a $15buk transgasket from Northwest
Transmission Parts, or some- where.

About all you can do, with the dropped pan protocol is check out the
Clump-catcher screen's condition, which should have nothing to do  with
the slow-initial engagement, which is probably  related to a weakening
of the trannie's front pump seal----once the trans warms up, that seal
swells and restores proper internal pressure. 

Anyway, the new-fluid fixed the slow R-engagement, and, the Forward gear
engagement is, now,  almost OK, but still a little too slow.

So, my suggestion is: replace the trannie fluid; give the car a couple
hundred miles to get happy, again, and if it still nedds some help, give
it a quart of Trans-X (which I plan to do, sometime soon).

Neil Vedder


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• From: Dave Stragand <dave.stragand@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:18:38 +0000

As for the trans, I had the same problem with my 58 Plynmouth. A pint of "Trans-X" fixed it after a couple of hundred miles, and it has been fine ever since (about 10 years).

-Dave

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From: Larry Ashbaugh <ALIENVOICE@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 01:21:54 EDT
To: <L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [FWDLK] Charging/Braking Questions

I had the 57 out for a short run today.  Every time it sits for a time (couple weeks in this case), it will seize up.  By that, I mean I can put the transmission in gear, floor it and, although I can feel it straining, it does not move.  When it breaks free, it spins the wheels (gravel drive), and goes a bit, then seizes up again.  Works better if I put it in reverse.  Once it gets up the drive a bit, it drives fine.  Not sure if it is the brakes, the e-brake, or what.  Does not pull left or right when braking, and the transmission fluid is fine.

Other problem I noted today is the amp gauge fluctuates constantly back and forth, not in any rhythm, but constantly.  Could it be the brushes in the generator, the voltage regulator, or the gauge itself?

Not many more days when I can get the FL cars on the road here, as the first hard freeze is due tonight.  Bah Humbug!

Larry (Akron, Ohio)


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