Shifting at 4600 rpm?

T67POWER said

The governor ,from what i have under stood, does effect the shift point's.
I will try to read up on what i remember but i am pretty sure that transmission line pressure controls your shift points under full throtle and the governor controls it too, but how is where i will not say at the moment.
The differance between race and stock is huge, and there are so many things in between ,that i need to read up on this.

If you can help ,and understand a torque flight pretty good ,then how can i get all the torque flights that i have worked on to shift where i want to by adjusting the linkage if it's controlled by the governer alone???????

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I didn't mean the governor controlled the shift point alone but it along with the 1-2 and 2-3 shift valve springs determine what the max rpm the trans will shift at with the throttle pressure linkage wide open. The throttle pressure works with the governor to make it shift at the right time. More pressure = higher upshifts to the point the governor over rides it. I can't say why yours went that high before it shifted. Possibly you had a shift kit in it that caused it?? I've rebuilt so many torqueflites I cant even remember half of them, LOL. That doesn't mean I know everything about them but I have studied up on how the torqueflite works a lot about them. What got me started was back in the early 90's I bought a Dakota and put a shift kit in it and the dang thing overlapped terrible. It was so bad it would nearly lock the wheels on the 1-2 shift if you had the drive wheels off the ground. I had rebuilt several torqueflites before that but never really studied the workings of them and you know how it goes, necessity is the reason we learn a lot of things. I sat down with a factory serv. manual and studied how the fluid flowed and what controlled what. Took me 3 tries but I finally got all the overlap worked out on the Dakota. Also in the process of doing several others for people I learned what controlled what in the governor circuit to make them shift where the customer wanted.