by sloppy2nds000 » Fri Jan 31, 2014 12:07 am
so i got it all back in, bolted up so on and so forth...dont have park, reverse or neutral, and drive is a little weak but 1 and 2 are ok. od housing is tip top, the parking lug/detent gizmo were also tip top. the rooster comb is in my opinion functioning beautifully, super tight with no slop. infact its so tight that it kinda hurts my hand to actuate it. sharp and pokey kinda pain. i think the manual valve that came with my fairbanks kit had the vane in a slightly different position than the stock valve but the main blocks on it were identical. so i want to blame it on the new manual valve for now giving me all fwd gears but i cant because my park detent isnt engaging. the rod passed thru with a little resistance and slides out with a little as well. i air checked the servos and they worked as they should. the accumulator is a bit sticky but i attribute that to being the leak proof sonnax red one. but its nearly impossible to get it to slide in the bore by hand.
so park creeps enough that you need the brakes to hold it back but when you get on the gas it slows, reverse tries to go in reverse but in the end kinda creeps fwd at the last moment. it mostly stays put but you can feel it wanting to move. drive is sluggish but 2 and 1 seemed ready to drive. when off and in park you can push it by had as if it were in neutral. but in any other gear, even neutral you have to push real hard to get it to move, nearly impossible to for one person to move it on a concrete floor more than a couple inches at a time. so i drained it pulled the valve body, checked the servos and band movement, checked the position of the new manual valve movement and compared it to the old. i put he new one back in. its draining now. but im off to bed. ill mess with it more when i get up.
it all seemed pretty straight foreward, so what the heck did i do? please someone chime in. im sure ill sort it out on my own, but i dont want to trouble shoot and trial and error it. id like to have one of you say, hey turd its this, and that be the end of it.
at this point im leaning towards swapping the old valve in and then tearing the vb down again. what happens if the gov tubes dont find their hole? the od slid back together so nicely that i assumed they went home when i set it in place.
thanks.
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