Shift Kit Help Please!

[cntrhub]

Thanks for the response wingnut. I am so glad you caught that just before administration removed it? Because I cannot see where my last post is describing what you agreed with. I'd like my last post to be reinstated so others can catch the jest of the troubleshooting scenario. I really don't see the controversy in what I wrote? If anything, it could have been edited rather than totally removed. I thought I was helping squash myths about things automotive. When you come down to it, it's all about common sense and understanding the physics of things in general.

 

[Mad-Mic]

If I'm not mistaken, a Vette Trans (4-L60) will hold about 13 quarts of Trans fluid. Just dropping the pan and replacing the filter and gasket will only remove about 5 quarts. The other 8 or so quarts are left sitting in the torque converter. So when you light up the engine, the pump in the forward Trans cover just pumped out 8 quarts of old oil into the pan. Now you have a mixture of both new and old ATF by the time you check and top off the fluid level. The only way to pump out all the fluid is to take it to a specialist who has the machine to capture all the oil and at the same time replaces the Trans with fresh ATF fluid.
The other old shade tree way, is to remove the cooler line from the radiator, over fill the transmission with oil, and watch the new color come out of the cooler line.
Use a little caution if you plan to do this. Don't pump the Trans dry. Just stop the engine, add more fluid and keep looking for clean ATF.
Why question when the fluid was change? Just dump it.
I don't know where this.... ( "if you don't change your fluid regularly then when you change it after 60+ k in miles you have a good chance on loosing the trans in a matter of days." )......came from? If you have a bad transmission, no matter what you do to it fluid wise, it will still be bad. Just changing the ATF will not destroy a "good working transmission" in days, no matter what the fluid condition is in. And this is oil that is just "overly dirty" and not contaminated....i.e. = friction plate burnt.
I'm sorry, but I am hearing an old wives tale about this, and question the validity of simply changing old Trans oil will render it useless in days.
My thinking is that fresh, thinner oil, will now have less tolerances between the friction and steel plates. Thus making the two plates lock closer together. A thicker oil between the plates, would cause slippage, because there is no "bite" between plates. This is how I see the difference between old and new oils in the Trans. If anything, the Trans will shift better with fresh oil.

no moderator deleted your post

i've seen way too many trans go down after a fluid and filter change after 60k in miles. it all goes back to "IF" they serviced it regularly. everyone to their own though

 

[Mad-Mic]

Mad- Mic,
Thanks for info: Here's what I've found...(see pic) That one cable I'm pointing at is as loose as a goose no matter what position the TB is in. I see no adjustment for it at all...!! down cable or at the TB.....It disappears into a big box that is against the firewall....is this the cable you were talking about and if so: any ideas?? THanks again..!!

ps: the other two cables are nice and tight....

Mag thats it. see the little plastic box with a metal insert right behind the bare cable? the same one marked with the hose clamp on it. push that in pull the plastic part of the cable in alittle towards the TB only about a 1/4 inch or until the cable is snug but still got about 1/4 to 1/2 inch pull. it should be tight. you want the cable to be snug to your finger with the throttle stop hitting on the TB.

 

[Moonunit 451]

OK guys, this is called the TV (throtle valve) cable. This will tell you all you need to know about it and it's funtion and setting.
http://www.tvmadeez.com/article/index.html

magmotor,
Under very light acceleration, I shift into overive at just over 40 mph. I think that is normal. Under full acceleration, 4900-5100 r's with selector in OD position

 

[cntrhub]

I believe it was my stepping on STP and ATF analogy that wingnut commented on. Unless my post found it's way out in the world wide web and never made it here, I can only ask wingnut if that's was what he remembers reading?
Please don't tell me I'm having a...... "Senior Moment." I'm not old enough..... yet!

 

[Magmotor]

Mad & Moon
Thxs loads for the info:
Moon-thxs for telling me about cruse speed...that's exactly what mine is doing and thought it wasn't right....tried to get to that site but wouldn't let me in for some reason-used netscape & explorer-no go-drag, wanted to see what it had to say to....
Mad-the cable with the plastic box w/clamp is nice & snug when TB wide open..think i'll leave that alone...it's the far cable I was pointing at..it has 1 1/2 to 2 in play no matter what position the TB is in...what is that cable for anyway??..

cntrhub- your having a senior moment..:s

 

[Mad-Mic]

mag not sure what that one is for but i'm gonna guess the kick down linkage for the trans?!?!?

cntrhub...

no prob i don't think it posted here

 

[Moonunit 451]

magmotor,

Netscape 7.0 takes me right in there off me posted link. Anyone else having trouble? Might have been a temporary glitch on the net. No trouble with IE 5.5 either. I'd give it another try.

 

[Magmotor]

Moon
Ok..got it...site musta been busy or who knows.....very interesting article w/good info:...still didn't tell me what that other flippen cable was to.....I gotta get a service manual....all there is too it.....

 

[Eagle85C4]

Three cables....gas pedal, throttle valve and cruise control....