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Okay first of all, thank you to everyone who has helped me this far. I’ve finished rebuilding my transmission and am pretty confident in it at this point in time. Truck drives forward for the first time in 24 years!
I have one problem however, it seems to be shifting wrong. Not late nor early from what I can tell. It shifts into 1st 2nd and 3rd and I have not tried going past 3rd for this reason. The truck seems to be mildy rubbing through gears. In other words it doesn’t shift very solid. It is almost as if when it gets into 2nd it is still a tiny bit in 1st. Same outcome in 3rd. It doesn’t seem like it’s dragging or making any bad noises but definitely shifting a little “soft”. I am thinking it has something to do with either my shift linkage, which I made sure to run through all gears from the transmission linkage and match to my floor shifter, with the truck up on the lifts. It was correctly placed in each gear to my knowledge as I went from the park position and all the way down to 1st from the linkage and the shifter matched each gear from above.
The modulator I had in the truck had no green or black stripe, so I got the modulator without one shown on rock auto. Modulator looks identical from the outside. The pin was poking out 1/8 or even 1/16 more than oem modulator though. I didn’t like that but as I’d already been through 3 tries with modulators and they didn’t match as close as this, I installed it. Could this have anything to do with my problem?
I installed and tightened bands by tightening the square head bolt all the way in and taking it 1.5 turns out. Then tightened nuts to spec. The man video I was watching at this point advised the 1 1/2 turns rather than the 2 turns recommended. He seemed VERY knowledgeable on the transmission and went into every detail like he was made to do it. I can’t say I’ve ever driven his transmissions, but his professionalism has me pretty confident he knew what he was talking about.
I did adjust the kick-down cable just as the manual told me to. Pulling it all the way out and setting the button. It is said to self adjust.
The problem is definitely subtle and the truck does drive but I don’t want to take it around anymore in risk that I’ll burn up the forward clutch again.
I would love any help and advice from someone who knows more than me. (Not at all hard to do).
I’m 16 and this is my first project car as I’ve said before, I’m working with well seasoned mechanics and this has them a little stumped as well.
Thank you everyone!
-Tyler
I have one problem however, it seems to be shifting wrong. Not late nor early from what I can tell. It shifts into 1st 2nd and 3rd and I have not tried going past 3rd for this reason. The truck seems to be mildy rubbing through gears. In other words it doesn’t shift very solid. It is almost as if when it gets into 2nd it is still a tiny bit in 1st. Same outcome in 3rd. It doesn’t seem like it’s dragging or making any bad noises but definitely shifting a little “soft”. I am thinking it has something to do with either my shift linkage, which I made sure to run through all gears from the transmission linkage and match to my floor shifter, with the truck up on the lifts. It was correctly placed in each gear to my knowledge as I went from the park position and all the way down to 1st from the linkage and the shifter matched each gear from above.
The modulator I had in the truck had no green or black stripe, so I got the modulator without one shown on rock auto. Modulator looks identical from the outside. The pin was poking out 1/8 or even 1/16 more than oem modulator though. I didn’t like that but as I’d already been through 3 tries with modulators and they didn’t match as close as this, I installed it. Could this have anything to do with my problem?
I installed and tightened bands by tightening the square head bolt all the way in and taking it 1.5 turns out. Then tightened nuts to spec. The man video I was watching at this point advised the 1 1/2 turns rather than the 2 turns recommended. He seemed VERY knowledgeable on the transmission and went into every detail like he was made to do it. I can’t say I’ve ever driven his transmissions, but his professionalism has me pretty confident he knew what he was talking about.
I did adjust the kick-down cable just as the manual told me to. Pulling it all the way out and setting the button. It is said to self adjust.
The problem is definitely subtle and the truck does drive but I don’t want to take it around anymore in risk that I’ll burn up the forward clutch again.
I would love any help and advice from someone who knows more than me. (Not at all hard to do).
I’m 16 and this is my first project car as I’ve said before, I’m working with well seasoned mechanics and this has them a little stumped as well.
Thank you everyone!
-Tyler
