New PATC transmission is in... need help
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WHOA!!!!! huston we have a psi problem! time to pull the valve body and check all you valves...... and probably pull it apart, clean it out with brake clean and check all the little ***** and make sure nothings hanging up or is jammed into the steel valvebody plate, ive seen it happen before, thatll cause the pressure to build.
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of course i could get out my service manual and take a look. if you need me to do that let me know.
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Sorry guys, had it hooked up to the wrong port.
The problem is kind of intermittent now. I think we got it where it would start out in second... not sure. When it's stuck in first it reads 20 psi at 30 mph.
The problem is kind of intermittent now. I think we got it where it would start out in second... not sure. When it's stuck in first it reads 20 psi at 30 mph.
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The pressure jumps to 10 with any movement, then seems to hang about 10-15 psi below whatever mph is from there, occasionally shifting into second then not downshifting unless manually with the shifter. Also, the pressure seems to stick at ten when you come to a stop.
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I was like "mmmkay then."
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I guess I'll get back on the horn with PATC. The Suncoast line is busy almost all the time.
Looking forward to getting this worked out. You get to feel a little bit of how awesome it is when it starts out in 2nd. It accelerates to 40 very nicely with minimal effort.
Looking forward to getting this worked out. You get to feel a little bit of how awesome it is when it starts out in 2nd. It accelerates to 40 very nicely with minimal effort.
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Well, we got it kind of working. Suncoast said to put it on jacks and run it, so we tried that and it shifted almost normally. PATC said the TV line was too tight and to give it some slack, and to also try driving it without the TV line hooked up to see if that changed anything. We did both those things.. It seemed something was in a bind inside the trans when we took the line off, kind of hard to explain it in words.
The pressure still lags 5-10 psi behind mph until about 30-35 then its catches up to be ~ 1 psi:1 mph.
It's starting to shift but it's not 100% yet... sometimes it won't downshift into 1st until the very last second like when the truck is going 1 mph. Sometimes when the truck is accelerating, it will shift into 2nd normally, then wait until the truck is rapped out to shift to third, then it will immediately shift into OD. 1....2.................................3.4
Pretty sure the governor weights are not the problem anymore. Thank goodness.
It's getting better though. We think it just needed to be ran through the motions. I'm going out of town for 4 days, so I let my brother have it to drive around. He also knows a first gen guru in Colorado (goes by Laser Bob on TDR iirc) that he's going to call up.
It'll make a nice little cloud of black smoke and leave one nice long black mark now if you mash it from a stop. It's starting to get evil...
The pressure still lags 5-10 psi behind mph until about 30-35 then its catches up to be ~ 1 psi:1 mph.
It's starting to shift but it's not 100% yet... sometimes it won't downshift into 1st until the very last second like when the truck is going 1 mph. Sometimes when the truck is accelerating, it will shift into 2nd normally, then wait until the truck is rapped out to shift to third, then it will immediately shift into OD. 1....2.................................3.4
Pretty sure the governor weights are not the problem anymore. Thank goodness.
It's getting better though. We think it just needed to be ran through the motions. I'm going out of town for 4 days, so I let my brother have it to drive around. He also knows a first gen guru in Colorado (goes by Laser Bob on TDR iirc) that he's going to call up.
It'll make a nice little cloud of black smoke and leave one nice long black mark now if you mash it from a stop. It's starting to get evil...