700r4 won't shift out of park
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700r4 won't shift out of park
I still can't get my 700r4 to shift out of park. I took it out and had a transgo shift kit installed. I also installed a performance ind. TC. I filled the trans with about 8 quarts. I've started it and let it run and ran it through the gears. Fluid level is staying the same. I disconnected one of the lines and it is pumping fluid. What else could it be? The linkage hooked up and working fine. Could the TV cable cause this?
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Are you saying that the shifter can move
through all the gears, but the car acts like it is in neutral with the parking brake applied ( can't be pushed )? Or does it act like it is in forward AND reverse at the same
time??
through all the gears, but the car acts like it is in neutral with the parking brake applied ( can't be pushed )? Or does it act like it is in forward AND reverse at the same
time??
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From: Central NJ, USA
Car: 1986 Firebird
Engine: 2.8 V6
Transmission: 700R4
I wonder if your pressure regulator's in the bottom of your trans pan! If you rev the engine high enough in gear, does it start to creep forward?
Er, I should explain... I put the B&M Shift Kit into my trans myself. (I don't know if the TransGo kit touches the pressure regulator.) There's two grooves in the bore for the pressure regulator... one's a "step" in the bore, the other is a true groove. I used the snap ring in the first fake groove, since I didn't see the second groove. (It turns out the pressure regulator had to be almost bottommed out to see the 2nd groove!) Anyway, I put the pan back together, filled it with fluid, pushed the car outside, started it, and ran it through the gears. Then I went inside, changed, and came out, all happy to go for a drive. I put it in gear and "Vrooom!"- I went nowhere. If I revv'd the engine higher, the car would inch forward. My dad & I had to push the car back into the garage, I dropped the pan (all that new fluid wasted, dammit), and found the pressure regulator sitting there, laughing at me, taunting me, preying upon my buried insecurities, conveying a feeling inside like when remembering a missed opportunity that you always regret, like a --- Woah, heh, sorry!
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-Tom P (Hot rodded 1986 Firebird 2.8l)
[This message has been edited by TomP (edited October 31, 2001).]
Er, I should explain... I put the B&M Shift Kit into my trans myself. (I don't know if the TransGo kit touches the pressure regulator.) There's two grooves in the bore for the pressure regulator... one's a "step" in the bore, the other is a true groove. I used the snap ring in the first fake groove, since I didn't see the second groove. (It turns out the pressure regulator had to be almost bottommed out to see the 2nd groove!) Anyway, I put the pan back together, filled it with fluid, pushed the car outside, started it, and ran it through the gears. Then I went inside, changed, and came out, all happy to go for a drive. I put it in gear and "Vrooom!"- I went nowhere. If I revv'd the engine higher, the car would inch forward. My dad & I had to push the car back into the garage, I dropped the pan (all that new fluid wasted, dammit), and found the pressure regulator sitting there, laughing at me, taunting me, preying upon my buried insecurities, conveying a feeling inside like when remembering a missed opportunity that you always regret, like a --- Woah, heh, sorry!
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-Tom P (Hot rodded 1986 Firebird 2.8l)
[This message has been edited by TomP (edited October 31, 2001).]
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