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Old 07-04-2016, 11:57 AM
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I hooked it up a transmission pressure gauge to the yellow port in this picture.

At idle I have 0 psi. When revving it up in neutral i got it up to 150psi and in drive and reverse I got it to about 75psi all at around 4000rpm. Does this pressure seem low? Or do I have another issue going on here?



Here is the back story- I have a 68 firebird with a 400 and a turbo 350 trans in it. I swapped one 400 for another and did the torque converter at the same time. After doing this now the trans started kicking out of 3rd gear when the car got hot(15 mins+ of driving). Going into neutral then to drive would put it back into 3rd. Disconnected the vacuum modulator(old engine produced little vacuum) drove it to a car show and it was shifting better manually but still kicked out of 3rd once. When we went to leave the show the trans wasn't shifting at all now and when you put it in reverse you have to rev it up before it moves.

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Old 07-04-2016, 04:13 PM
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If you have zero line pressure at idle, you have s serious problem. Are you connected to the correct pressure port? There is no picture here.

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Old 07-04-2016, 06:22 PM
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If you have zero line pressure at idle, you have s serious problem. Are you connected to the correct pressure port? There is no picture here.
IMG_1041 by Jacob Marquis, on Flickr

Maybe this will work if not https://flic.kr/p/JmSzfb

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Old 07-04-2016, 06:41 PM
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IMG_1041 by Jacob Marquis, on Flickr

Heres a functional picture

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Old 07-04-2016, 08:06 PM
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Pulled the pan and found some gold... And a bolt from the valve body just sitting there...

Turbo 350 Trans pan by Jacob Marquis, on Flickr

Turbo 350 Trans pan by Jacob Marquis, on Flickr

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Old 07-07-2016, 08:37 AM
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Check your governor. I can't talk to the pressure at the ports, but I have had an issue where shifts occurred later, and didn't want to keep it in 3rd. One of the flyweights on the governor had come loose and wasn't working right.

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Old 07-07-2016, 09:15 PM
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Governor will not cause low line pressure.

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Old 07-08-2016, 05:52 AM
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Good to know. But I have had similar shifting symptoms, and a governor is relatively easy access.

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Old 07-08-2016, 10:50 PM
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But in this case it would be a total waste of time.

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