torqueflite 727 problem, need help....please. Long, sorry.

cjboater · 2006-09-26T00:37:22+00:00

I have a problem with my fresh built 727. Its an 83 lock up modelfrom a Jeep grand wagoneer. Currrently in a cj7 with 258 in front andd300 behind, 4.56 gears. Trans was built with new high qaulity overhaulkit; clutches, steels, seals, pump set, 5:1 band lever, a properlyinstalled trans-action shift kit, new 16-1800 stall converter, properlyconnected lokar trottle valve cable. No new bands. Less than 3 miles onit now. I've read everything I can search on every board and have notfound a solution. The problem I'm having is no third gear shift what so ever. The 1-2shift occurs vey early speed wise, if the trans bothers with 1st atall, and just runs up to 3500 or so and still no 3 shift. The 1-2 shiftfeels like it occurs very early in the motion of the shifter too, justas I touch the shifter to move to 2nd it shifts, feels like a good firmshift though. Also there is a "bog feel" that feels like I'm towing aLARGE load or big head wind (basically the jeep does not accelerate asquickly or pull as hard as it did before the rebuild), but when thethrottle valve cable is disconnected or tuned way out this bog ismostly eliminated. When this trans died a couple months ago the first thing that wentwas 3rd, but it was more like where 3rd should have been there was onlynuetral, now its like there is only 1st and 2nd gear. Then a few mileslater 2nd then 1st became nuetral and R died too. During the rebuild wefound the snap ring that retains the clutches broke and let theclutches and steels come loose. Ever since this trans was swapped infrom a junkyard wagoneer it has always slipped on the way into 3rd (revup for 3/4 second then 3rd caught). Before the rebuild it never had athrottle valve cable. Any help anyone could give me would be hugely appreciated, and ifyour solution is long and drawn out, I'll cover ya. Email me if youwant me to call, .Ive been fighting through thisfor a month now and am out of answers and desperate. Help a guy out.Thanks in advance, ChrisSorry its...

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DeserTBoB 19 years ago

WRONG! That was a THM375, produced by Detroit Transmission Divison, later the HydraMatic Division of GM.

WRONG AGAIN! '68 Camaros came with PowerSlide as standard and didn't get the THM350 (built by Chevrolet in their own plant) until 1969...AS AN OPTION.

Obviously not having my head up my ass, as you have been for years.

Bullshit.

CHILTON? BWAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Even a Haynes manual's better than those old Chilton pieces of crap! Only one reason to have ANY Chilton manual, especially from back then...as kindling for your fireplace. I had that exact shop manual back when it was new. I found more errors in it than ANY other publication at the time, and never bought another Chilton manual for anything. Now, if you'd care to look at a better manual, like the FSM or a Motor manual, you'd see that the Buick and Olds used the THM375. THE TWO ARE NOT THE SAME BOX...IDIOT! Just TRY to swap out a THM375 with a THM350, or try to use a 350 kit in a 375...see what happens.

You'll see...you've been made the village idiot once again.

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DeserTBoB 19 years ago

Correction...it came with the Pontaic 350 with a THM375. Look it up...in a DECENT manual. The "350 with a B-O-P bolt pattern" didn't show up until 1972, which was called the THM375B, somewhat a fraud, really. The 375B only differed from the Chevy version on bigger displacement engines because is had more disks and plates in the clutch pack...because the stock THM350 COULD NOT HANDLE THAT MUCH TORQUE!

What a nimrod...and Putney sides with this moron?

Why, too stupid or inept to do your own transmission work?

Putting a 455 in front of a THM375 is stupid...period. The 400 and

455 in the '70 Firebirds had a THM400. Go look at the FSM.

Answer this question: Does your Firebird have a kickdown switch, or not?

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Charlie Deludo 19 years ago

ram" manifold. It probably

Look at the picture, it's a scan of an old photgraph. It's the same old scan he's been posting for years. He cannot produce a current picture of the car he constantly brags about because he's either beat the s*it out of it or sold it a long time ago.

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