nashville68bird
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I had my tranny shop pals rebuild the original tranny and have now put about 50 miles on her. For those of you that have this engine/tranny combo, you know that there is that ever-present "deadzone" when cruising roads at 40-50 MPH....the tranny slides in to fourth gear and the engine RPM drops to 1500 or so.....and now you are blogging down the road at what feels like too little RPM. I have a habit at that point of manually shifting down one notch and forcing her back in to third gear. I'd like to hear from you all if you feel doing this is detrimental to the powertrain, or if it is perfectly normal and safe to do so.