Anyone know a way to delay the premature 3rd-4th gear upshift under moderate acceleration? It's annoying to constantly manually downshift into 3rd. Haven't seen a solution on here.
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Anyone know a way to delay the premature 3rd-4th gear upshift under moderate acceleration? It's annoying to constantly manually downshift into 3rd. Haven't seen a solution on here.
Thanks
Yeah...No. It's not 5 grand worth of work annoying...yet!That is controlled internally by shift valves.
I would contact whole sale automatics or cruiser brothers and see if the wat nomad valve body can change that.
Yeah...No. It's not 5 grand worth of work annoying...yet!
Well with shipping, fluids and misc materials and even doing it myself it's probably $2000 ($2600 Canadian). And not skilled enough to repair myself so yeah 5 grand up here is reasonable.A valve body is like $1200
Well with shipping, fluids and misc materials and even doing it myself it's probably $2000 ($2600 Canadian). And not skilled enough to repair myself so yeah 5 grand up here is reasonable.
hmmm feed the youngins or make daddy manually downshift... have to take pollThen I guess you'll live with it. Won't you?
Even with shipping and fluids 2k Canadian is probably more like it.
It's 5 quarts of fluid.
There are no miscellaneous parts.
The how to on this forum makes it very simple.
hmmm feed the youngins or make daddy manually downshift... have to take poll
I would assume there is a transmission throttle cable (i.e. kickdown). Have you checked its condition and adjusted out any slack / stretch?
There's a TPS on the injection pump the transmission uses to determine shift points. I don't know how to adjust it for the results your after, but I'd focus there as a starting point.
Those with electronic A442F's do, fully hydraulic models do not.Depends on year. The 1hdt does not have one.
Those with electronic A442F's do, fully hydraulic models do not.
Ah, missed that, thought we were talking about his '93.His is a 91 with a hydro.
I have a 91HDJ81 and one of the first things I did was installing the Nomad valve body as I was planning on running a GTurbo. I don't have experience driving a stock A442F to compare but I have noticed many people drive in D all the time. That does not work well as it's the overdrive. I drive in 3rd until i"m on the highway and then upshift.Thanks for the feedback guys. Yeah I did adjust slack on the kickdown a while ago. Now with the new 35's and stock gears it doesn't spend a lot of time in 4th anyway. The occasional downshift isn't that big a deal now.
Regards
I was on 35s and stock gearing and I hated it. 35s 4.88 is nice. Match I also ran 5.29 and 35s it’s ok but it gets to 4gear a bit early. I’m on 38s and 5.29 perfect match for my needsthe upgraded extreme valve body is well worth it.