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« Thread Started on Jan 25, 2012, 5:39pm » | |
After sitting for a couple years, I finally took my yellow 86 into the shop for my mechanic to figure out why the transmission shifts so funky. It starts out in 2nd instead of 1st, then you have to gun it to get it to shift into 3rd.
I swapped in a disc brake rearend and he is going to fix the issue with the parking brakes not working correctly. I gave him a stock governor to replace the corvette unit, and asked him to replace the proportioning valve with a unit I got with the rear end.
Hopefully, if the transmission doesnt need to be rebuilt, I will be cruising my car soon.
I hope to restore her to some of her former glory:
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« Reply #1 on Jan 26, 2012, 11:13am » | |
Keeping my fingers crossed that tranny is good. After all, you need to be driving that thing. I like that two tone combo.
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« Reply #2 on Jan 26, 2012, 6:18pm » | |
Me too, I miss driving my car.
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« Reply #3 on Feb 6, 2012, 9:57pm » | |
He put the transmission lines in, worked on the parking brake, installed the proportioning valve and bled the brakes and changed out the governor. He added a lubricant to unstick the valves in the transmission. 1st gear is now working and its shifting nicely, but no 4th gear yet. He wanted me to drive it 100 miles to see if it fixes 4th gear.
I may park it for a bit and work on my IROC. Get that one running really well and go check out a posi rear end for it with better gears.
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« Reply #4 on Feb 22, 2012, 10:21pm » | |
No 1st gear. Drove it on the highway, only 2nd and 3rd gear. The transgo shift kit is supposed to eliminate the 2nd to 3rd gear flare, but I feel one during the 2-3 shift at full throttle.
Whats weird is, if you downshift manually to 1st gear, the tranny shifts really smoothly through all gears except there is no 4th gear.
Still leaking fluid. Starting to think that either the front pump bushing or torque converter is leaking fluid.
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