I have an 87 Camaro with a 305/ 700R4. The 700 has MD8 stamped on the side. Anyway, I bought the car with a blown engine, dropped in a rebuilt 305 and it drove fine for about a week, then it wouldnt kickdown when I floored it. It shifts at like 1500 RPM's and they're real soft. It only downshifts when it slows down. I tried adjusting the TV cable, but it shifts the same no matter where the cable is adjusted, even disconnected. I readjusted the TV cable, and hooked a pressure gauge up to the diagnostic port on the tranny, and all of the pressures were in correct operating range for minimum TV or something like that. I couldn't check maximum TV because I was working by myself. Any ideas? A friend of mine thinks one of the check ball in the valve body is stuck or missing. When I dropped the pan last week, there were a lot of real fine metal shavings (not big pieces, just grey gunk stuck to the pan and magnet, this was with around 200 miles of driving on fresh fluid/filter). Any ideas?

 

No one has any ideas?

 

Sounds like low line caused by a stuck TV valve or loose cable and now a bad trans likely I have seen the 700r4 burn up in as litle as 10 miles with either of these conditions