3rd gear issues on 727 after Tf2
I kinda figured that and I know how to make adjustments with TP and governor, shift points etc. What I don’t know is about KD to 2nd meaning, is there RPM/MPH that you don’t want to drop back. I don’t want to tear anything up. It’s a 440 with 3.91 diff (future 3.23). When I was playing with adjustments yesterday, at one point it dropped back and felt like it was out of 2nd gear. As always thanks. Craig
I think what you felt was a no engine braking condition, which can be normal when the shift points are too high.
Also, the governor will not normally allow a kickdown after a certain speed.
It works the same way as if you went to manual low when going too fast for low.
You can move the shifter to low gear but an unmodified trans won't go into low until the road speed gets down to a safe speed for it to do it.
I say "unmodified" because an optional function of the TF2 kit allows the trans to be put into manual first at any speed.
I have this option in my car because the type of shifter I have makes it near impossible to go into manual low accidentally, but I can make it do it if I want it to.
You can test this with your car by doing about 30mph and dropping the shifter into manual low with zero throttle.
It probably won't downshift until you get down around 20-25 or so.
If it does downshift into first at 30 try 35 and see if it still does it.
Going into manual low at 30-35 won't be enough to hurt anything if it does it, because your car will probably go that fast in first anyway.
If you drop in first and it waits to downshift until you are at a lower speed you know the governor is preventing the engine from being over revved.
This answers your question about being able to kickdown into too high RPM's.
Kickdown will never happen too high to hurt something because the trans will go to third before it hurts an engine.
Manual shifting could, as I explained above with the manual downshift test.