Hi all yesterday evening i went on a drive, and my car had been sitting for 8+ hours so she was stone cold, let her idle for a couple mins to start and warm up, put her in gear and idle dropped to 600rpms (from 800rpms) which is normal, but when i went to accelerate she didn't start to move till almost 1000rpms !!!! and she sounded like she was struggling just to get there, but after driving for awhile and warming up, she was fine no low speed issues, so i am going to drop the pan and inspect, i was also going to be putting in my manual/automatic transgo rebuilt valve body, question is can i get away with just tightening the clutch bands and call it quits, or should i go more indepth ?? Trans is a '75 non-LU 904,

-Mike

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You let it idle in Park correct? Try idling it in neutral so the pump fills the torque converter. Chances are the torque converter just drained into the pan and had to refill.

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Joshua

that is correct, now funny thing when driving her tonight, she has got major delay in shifting, like climbs to 3000rpms and slowly shifts 1-2, 2-3. its really weird, i wonder if there may be issues with the valve body, or slipping clutches,

-Mike

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WOW, i feel retarded......... when trying to diagnois something that deals with a fluid whats the first thing you supposed to check ?? fluid level !!!!!! what didn't i check till tonight ?? fluid level !!!!! she was about a quart and a half low, thankfully i carry spares lol, searched all around the bottom of the trans, thought it might be a pan leak nope, freaking dipstick tube !!!!!!! just curiousity anyone know the particular size of the dipstick tube seal/o-ring ?? can i use a viteon oring on this ??


-Mike

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Don't feel bad. We've all done things like that. AT least I have. Lou always preaches, "Get to the basics and start there". That is what you finally did. I am glad you found the problem, and it is an easy fix.

Sam

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yea me too sam, at $6 a quart for ATF+4 (my parts store doesn't carry atf+3 anymore, autozone, but advance as well ) NAPA does but its $5 for ATF+3, so i might as well get the better stuff. I just hate i mean HATE doing tranny servicing, plus the valve body swap, glad i saved a bit of a headache, well atleast for this weekend lol,

-Mike

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