CudaFactHackJob
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Stock V8 drums hold 4 thicks at a minimum. Later hold five. Are you sure you don't have a 6 cyl (three plate) drum? Post a pic of the retaining ring groove in the direct drum.
That trans go shift kit is fun as hell! i put mine on coffee spiller mode!
That trans go shift kit is fun as hell! i put mine on coffee spiller mode!
I'm confused by the instructions. How do you set it to coffee spiller mode?
You set everything at the high end of what the instructions say.
Like drilling the holes in the plate to the largest of the options, and blocking the accumulator from moving.
I had a guy keep making me take his car back and increase the "options" and he wasn't happy till the second gear shift made his glove box door pop open.
Ok so just drill the separator plate holes to 3/16.
On this page step 4 for drilling with the spacer you're supposed to go through the wall where the mark is correct?
Then I've noticed on step 3 it says to drill through the barrier wall here with the 1/8th drill. Is it supposed to be a notch or taken completely out? Because my VB doesn't have the wall at all.
Lastly my spring pocket already has a hole, is it supposed to get another one?
So many questions! All the time
I don't have the directions, you do.
FIRST let me say that since the 3/8 ball and spring pocket already has a hole drilled, that VB has already been modified/or kitted.
The holes in the separator plate have probably already been drilled also.
Look at what the instructions say for each hole and it's size options and compare that to the holes that are there already.
Then see if you need to drill them.
On drilling the wall, that means one of the walls between fluid channels like where the red dot is in this pic.
Drilling that wall is the highest firmness option and will make some really hard shifts if I remember correctly, but make damn sure you want that and that that's where you are supposed to drill.
If a wall is to be drilled there is usally a metal plate in the kit with three holes in it.
The two end holes are where you screw the plate down on the valve body, and the third hole is the drill guide.
Then you drill straight down through the wall creating a gap in the wall.
Did your kit come with that flat plate?
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I'm confused by the instructions. How do you set it to coffee spiller mode?
Just make sure you first have a cup holder...don't ask me how i know..
@TrailBeast couple of quick questions regarding the tf2 kit again.
Per the instructions it says to drill this hole on 6 or 7 passage type VB w/ lockup converter.. This is a 6 passage vb but no lockup converter is in the car, do I drill it?
Then in my last vb the hole was already drilled where the bypass ball and spring was so I didn't drill one. But if drilling one does the hole go towards the top of the casting (1 dot) or more towards the bottom (2 dots)?
Thanks for the help!
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Slightly confused by the spring and pocket as I keep going on the directions. It says if you don't have hole "L" in your plate nothing goes here. Then right beneath it the directions state if VB HAS ball and spring to drill hole and install ball and spring.
My vb has no hole @ L but also had a ball and spring in that spring pocket... so idk what to actually do there...
And yes this transmission is pissing me the heck off. Rebuilt and shifts like a turd. Have adjusted and adjusted and adjusted... I'm currently doing new vb to install and new throttle cable to have correct kickdown/throttle cable set up w/ 1 to 1 pull ratio to try to get things normal... or somewhat normal.
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Why is the separator plate in #134 different than the one in #144?
OH, and one thing I wanted to mention is that you need to have that trans fully warmed up to see how it's going to not only shift, but when it's going to shift.
Cold, or not all the way warmed up fluid makes them shift earlier and softer.
About 10 minutes of driving should get it warmed up enough to see how it will normally act.