Early 70's A'904 Torqueflite downshift

Hi, I have a 76 Dart with stock 318/A-904 all assembled in Brazil so I am not sure if the transmission could be an earlier model in USA.
My question is, these TFs had 2-1 downshift?
When in DRIVE, my TF will take off in 1st gear always but will upshift 1-2 at WOT at 2,500 rpm (max) and will NOT downshift to 1st untill the car is almost at full stop.
I can manually downshift 2-1 no problem but it will not kickdown.
TV linckage is all good and set right.
The car will not rev over 2,500 rpm in drive in 1st gear even at wot.
Kickdown 3-2 seems to be normal in drive, it will upshift 2-3 at 3,000 rpm max thogh.
So when I am in drive, it will upshift from 1st to 2nd at max 2,500 rpm and will stay in 2nd until I am almost in a full stop. Is that normal? Manual shift works fine.
I took the valve body apart for cleaning and put in Transgo SK but it is the most basic one. I am quite sure all VB work was done right.
The car just feels like it could use a 2-1 part throtle kickdown.
Thanks for any info.

Just to give an update for some who might be interested, I was concerned about the low rpm Wide Open Throttle 1-2 upshift on my A-904/318 DART torqueflite, and in fact, the throttle valve rod was not properly adjusted... mostly due to a misadjustment in the gas cable, it was not pulling the TV rod and carburetor all the way.
After adjusting it correctly and eliminating the gaps in the connections, the throttle valve rod moves about 3/16" further than before and it had a tremendous effect in the WOT upshifts and kick down numbers.

Now this transmission will upshift at WOT from 1st to 2nd at around 3700 rpm (40 mph) and 2nd to 3rd at WOT around 4000 rpm (73 mph). Sorry for the poor videos.



Now, if I take off easy and let the transmission shift 1st - 2nd - 3rd and then floor it, it will kick down into 1st till it reaches 3700 rpm then upshift to 2nd, so it does kick down from 3rd into 1st but at max. speed of 27 MPH (40 kmh).



I am not sure how it will kick down into 1st at part throttle, did not have enough time and can't drive the car on the road freely once I do not have the registration current ( been waiting for 5 months so far for the new registration from local DMV once the original registration was canceled due to not have been renewed in the past 20 years... I hope some day they will send me a new one...).

Now she is a happy 904...

Here is the only mod I made, installing this basic Transgo SK.

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