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Buy a large jar of Jared generic Vaseline LOL for the transmission! LOL two boxes of rubber gloves at Harbor Freight 2 rolls of paper towels and is much awesome as you can carry out of the Dollar Tree! LOL
So, basically I'd be just replacing the valve body? Do you remember where you bought it? Am I just searching for the valve body part#?
Buy a large jar of Jared generic Vaseline LOL for the transmission! LOL two boxes of rubber gloves at Harbor Freight 2 rolls of paper towels and is much awesome as you can carry out of the Dollar Tree! LOL
Basically you take that plate on the right off and screw the circled part on in place of it and put the plate back on the end of the new part with the supplied longer screws.
The red circled assy is the entire kit.
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And all this is reachable without dropping the trans out of the car? I like this idea a lot.
Yep, just by dropping the valve body and putting it back in, because that part goes on the top side of the VB.
I think I may have actually giggled a little when I drove mine after.
If the KD mech is not making a difference, then this is a governor issue. Either the fly-weight is too light, or the E-clip has flipped off.My 71 Dart 340 Swinger is my daily and the current 940 will shift up ok but won't kick down on throttle stomp and I basically have to stop for it to come back down to 1st or second. During normal acceleration, 1-2 is at 20ish, 2-3 is at 40ish.
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I'd actually probably laugh out loud if I could pull that off with mine. I've watched a few videos and it seems like the hardest part of pulling the valve body is getting the parking rod in and out. Any tips for that?
If the KD mech is not making a difference, then this is a governor issue. Either the fly-weight is too light, or the E-clip has flipped off.
If the KD mech is not making a difference, then this is a governor issue. Either the fly-weight is too light, or the E-clip has flipped off.
I think 20 and 40 is too high an adjustment for it to kick down anyway.
Should be lower? like 15 and 35?
Stock was more like 10 and 15 under light throttle, but they shift like crap for a street car like that.
The problem is that once the pressure is thrown off by upping the shift points, the pressure is too high to kick down.
The Transgo TF2 shift kit solves a lot of that and is the mid range of the kits.
Ok, so it's not an even spread through the shift points. I think I'll be learning a lot once I pull this all apart.
I and a lot of others wish.
You can also order governor kits by specifying the RPM's you want the shifts at.
Those can be gotten from A&A transmissions online.
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Just found this local Craigslist sad boy did this guy get taken to the cleaners!
Mopar 727 A transmission rebuilt
You should go ahead and look up what a rebuild kit is on Summit? Or a transgo stage 2 shift kit?Wow ok so I should get really good at these and do them for 1/3 of that price and have a nice side income.
Just for kicks I looked on jegs and Summit and they have them new (refurbished) for 1,000 to 1200 with a warranty for crying out loud
You should go ahead and look up what a rebuild kit is on Summit? Or a transgo stage 2 shift kit?
And don't fall for that having to buy crazy special tools bologna! You can make the tools you need at home.
Be mindful of what you get for a kit. When i ordered mine,by part number my supplier couldnt provide it, another vendor subbed kit came in and had no thrust washers or bushings. And was shy on clutches and steels.
And was more money.
Reassembled with what i had, saved a couple clutches from old one and lived with the worn bushings.
Next go-around i will be paying closer attention.
By the way,get the book. Its money well spent and its easier than you think.
Again I recommend if you have a transmission Parts Warehouse or anything like that close by to get your kit there. If you have to go get replacement parts or anything it's a lot easier to be able to drive there. That could be a big if also because I just happen to live in a town that has two pretty comprehensive transmission warehouses.Oh yea, wouldn't think of it without the book, that's for sure. And I'll be sure to do my research on the rebuild kits. It might even make sense for me to pull it apart to investigate it first and then I'll know what should be replaced and it should help me pick out the right kit.
Again I recommend if you have a transmission Parts Warehouse or anything like that close by to get your kit there. If you have to go get replacement parts or anything it's a lot easier to be able to drive there. That could be a big if also because I just happen to live in a town that has two pretty comprehensive transmission warehouses.
And yeah that's mechanics 101 take it apart and have the parts match up at the parts store.