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Old 11-16-2008, 05:59 PM
bob_98sr5 bob_98sr5 is offline
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Ok, after re-studying the heck out of the schematics, I took off the valve body and went to work installing all the springs yesterday. I have a mess of pics that I'll post online, but that'll be later. The kit's springs allows you to correct alot of the common transmission ailments. I installed springs to soften 1st to 2nd as well as firming up 2-3 and 3-4 to kill the neck snapping flaring I had. I also installed the control shift cable (aka transmission cable, bowden cable, etc) to the transmission. That was a challenge. Find someone with skinny, dainty fingers to help! Or, use extensions. I'll detail more later. But anyways, with the springs installed and adjusting the control shift cable, I no longer have:

1 - 2: Softened shift into next gear and decreased the rpm shift point
2 - 3: NO MORE HARSH KICK into the next gear. I can keep my foot WOT on the pedal, it will shift around 3400 rpm (instead of 4000 or above), hang just long enough before shifting into gear. THere's no more harsh kick. It just shifts into gear as any auto transmission should.
3 - 4: Same as above.

I also adjusted the accelerator cable adjustment nut after I adjusted the control shift cable nut too. I don't think I've found the happy medium between the two, but pretty close.

I would say that because of the almost correct shift points and near elimination of the slipping and flaring, it does feel faster. However, I still believe my 0 - 60 is still higher than it should be. I did a rough count and I feel its around 20 to 22 seconds. But that's alot better than the low to mid 30s I had a few weeks ago (IP seals and copper gasket replacement took care of that). I still need to work on troubleshooting why my car still feels a tad sluggish.
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