Eliminating knockdown with the Transgo valve
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Yea sir. That's was over 75 days ago. Not to mention it was broke for over 30 before he said that.
I'll do it myself. At least it'll run right. It didn't have the 3/8 ball in the converter flow valve, just the short spring. Well if its had the longer spring all would have been well but it was 3/8 short so hence a failure.
My parts will be in this next week and hopefully in 2 weeks, as I'm limited to a few hrs a night working on it, my truck will run again.
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I was told by a reputable builder that you can remove the ball and just use the white spring. am I going to do that no. im just going to modify my stock valve.
when I talked to mike a few years ago when i built my first trans. he told me to use a longer spring.
Exactly. He says earlier in this thread with out a longer spring the converter could do strange things...no worries I'll get bit running come hell or high water
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It was put together with the transgo spring and no ball???Wow,with the valve floating around I bet weird thing's happened!
I don't have a stock valve anymore. On top of that I didn't have a white spring. I called transgo directly and asked for the overall length of the spring for kit A1-LU-BST-04 which comes with only 1 spring and it is 1.560" long and requires the 3/8 ball with it. That or you need a spring that is 3/8 longer to make up for it. Well I didn't have a ball or a longer spring.
Regardless its done by me. And this time itll be correct.
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Mine isn't much rougher than the Transgo valve was. The 3-4 shift firmed up alot but i also added the ml pr spring at the same time. That's the only noticeable difference I can feel.
To each his own, what you may not like I may love and vice versa, but to be honest since the converter never locked last time im sure ill think it normal. Im also installing the Mike L. spring. If I don't then I guess ill just be really good at playing with my transmission. Just my .02
I ran it both ways in my truck, and I couldn't tell any difference in lockup feel.
that is good to know. when your truck weighs 9500 you need to have all the help you can to get that biatch to move along....good thing she is gonna be relieved this summer of the utility bed. thank you for all the help on this fellas:thumb:
So is grinding the flat something that should be done on every build? I think I read where Mike says he does but can't find it again. It'll be my daily driver that isn't going to make crazy power, some say do it some say don't.... any help?
If you do this, you better have a strong converter. If you do this on a single disc it will bust the lining right off.
I do this mod on all my builds because I want no pressure drop to the internal clutches in the trans.