Date:         Tue, 10 May 2011 17:16:11 -0700
Reply-To:     Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Trans upshift
Comments: To: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@turbovans.com>
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On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 17:02 -0700, Scott Daniel - Turbovans wrote:

> he's talking about removing some weight from the governor weighs on the side
> of the automatic transaxle.
>
> that round cover on the left side, held on with a wire bail clip ..
> under there ..
> you pull a little assembly out, remove two weights and take about 10 to 15 %
> off the end of each one, put it all back together.
> for engines that are more like 6,000 or 7K rpm engines, rather than
> waterboxer 5,000 rpm engines..
> this makes the trans wait longer before shifting up.
>
> you shouldn't need to do this at all.
> and just think..
> all these many last decades and miles your trans throttle rod has been out
> of adjustment.


Well, the trans was pulled last fall to get rebuilt so it was probably
re-adjusted at the time, though I didn't notice any difference in
shifting.

So when a fellow pulls away from the stop sign, not kicking it down but
trying to get some speed up, and he notices that the trans shifts from
1st to 2nd at, say, 2500 rpm, hardly up in the power band and well
before he'd shift manually, and sees the same behavior when the trans
shifts from 2nd to 3rd, what determines those shift points if not that
governor?

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Rocky J Squirrel