if you find clutch debree in pan, rebuild!
Greg in Fla
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From: CLLLSLS@aol.com <CLLLSLS@aol.com>
To: JHUBER@alltel.net <JHUBER@alltel.net>
Date: Thursday, August 31, 2000 1:28 AM
Subject: Re: [oletrucks] 700R4 WILL NOT UPSHIFT!!!
>In a message dated 00-08-30 05:38:49 EDT, you write:
>
><< Upshifts are also controled by the governor.
> on rear side of case there is a round cap,gently tap it off, it is a drive
> fit. check to see if plastic gear is worn, or valve is hung.
> if you drove the trans with cable disconected at all, you will have to
> rebuild.
> Greg in Fla >>
>
>
>I only drove 2 miles and didn't put the tranny under any load (kept below
>2200 RPM).
>I just operated the band manually by pressing the servo cover and it grabs
>solid. The governor was gummed up, but the gear was perfect and after
>cleaning and reassembly still no shifty. I'm going to drop the pan again
tear
>it down. I guess starting with the pump regulator onto the valve body.
Don't
>jump to rebuilding. The turbo 350 that came out of this truck had 475,000
>miles on it with a stage 2 shiftkit installed at 5000 miles. This truck has
>hauled 4000 pounds of pea gravel in the bed (it's a half ton) with 3.08
>gears. It's towed a loader on a trailer weighing 16,000 pounds many times
and
>besides dropping the pan to install the shiftkit, the fluid was only
changed
>one other time at around 200,000 miles. Oh yeah, and when I finally pulled
it
>out, I removed the torque converter to find the splines on the outer shaft
>completely gone. It did start out in second gear, took 20 seconds to go
into
>reverse until it warmed up, would only downshift with a very fast and hard
>full throttle, ran on black, gritty fluid and refused to blow up no matter
>how I drove it. It never slipped though. Thanks.
>
>Dustin
>
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