Spring Pressures. Solid roller lifter on a hyd roller cam.
Did your hydraulic roller to Mechanical roller swap work?
Ya know, I'm about to go nuts here. Was going to dig in when the 727 was done. 2 transmissions later...... The first one was done by recommendation from a friend. Well, that trans was done in a shop with a dirt floor by a guy who had no idea. Delivered it to my house with his wife who followed him here ...said it's done and happily drove away with my $1400. Took it out for a drive...it's slipping...oh, and he had my transmission in his shop from June to January. After a week of no contact finally he responded...bring it back and I'll send it to Everett to my dad's shop and he'll fix it....Nope...it took me 8 months to get a POS back.
A high school friend has a transmission shop and has done work for me in the past. Should have taken it there first. He found the pressures were not set and were way low. I put 30 miles on it and the clutches were burned...I wasn't hard on it either. Once I was sure it was slippage and not converter or shift kit I stopped driving it. I paid for a trans-go shift kit...it wasn't installed. The Case was warped and servos were sticking. 2 snap rings in the tail shaft were muffed, 1 in the end and 1 forward of the rear support bearing ...I think that's where it was ...was gone and the shaft was chewed. Found out later this trans was in a fire.
Wayne's Car Care my high School friend had a 727 with a cracked case but newer billet internals from a desert race truck that upgraded to a different trans. Wayne also found me a good case put all the billet stuff in and a manual fwd shift valve body and a new TSC 3200 stall converter. Great transmission. Shifts too hard on the 2/3 shift. The nose drops at the shift and damn near shakes the dash out of it's hole..1/2 shift is great. Anyway, it's back in Wayne's shop now to soften up the 2/3 shift. That one cost me $3900 all said and done but is stout mo fo.
So $5300, 2 transmissions and a year later it's still in the shop getting the fine tune work done as part of the original $3900 cost.
As for the lifter swap, hasn't happened yet. I'm on the fence about the Crane 69515-16 solids. I want pressure fed bushed rollers but haven't decided on which ones. May not do it at all if I find the lifter bores egged when I take it apart. If that's the case I may just pull it and run the beefy 318 till I get the factory roller motor done.
