You can adjust the TV cable to get it to kick down sooner but then your part
throttle shifts may be to high.
I have a Transgo in mine and have no trouble out of it at all. This thing shifts
like an old 727, very positive and with out any lag on the down shifts. The shifts
are not tire chirping but are very nice. It does take some peddle to get it come out
of overdrive but this is what you want, you don't want it to go in and out with
small amounts of throttle differences like they do stock, this saves on the OD unit.
My trany will not go into 2nd gear if I am going around 65-70 mph it will only kick
down to 3rd. I would say that it is probably the level 10 kit that is making it do
that. Sorry that you didn't go for the Transgo kit.
But again you may be able to adjust it out with the TV cable.
Colin H.
rking@jjsnack.com wrote:
> Thanks! I wanted to bring up another issue about my tranny. It is the
> one component on the truck that has been disappointing. It is perhaps
> the worst auto I have ever driven. Especially at issue is part
> throttle kick-down. It takes alot of accel pedal movement to get it
> to kick down a gear to pass or to just pick up the pace. Especially
> noticable on the highway (usu. I drive with O/D on as one might
> expect). I can be going 70 - 75 on the interstate at about 1/4
> throttle and go to pass someone and gradually depress the pedal to try
> to initiate a downshift. Sometimes I get the downshift but often not
> until I slam the padal all the way to the floor. Often when I do
> finally get a down shift it will shift down two gears instead of one
> (which is all I really need) and for a brief couple of moments the
> engine wails up to 5200 -5300 rpm before shifting back up. It's kind
> of like rolling the dice to see what the trans will give you. I see
> alot of the engine's power being squandered with this erratic trans
> action. The trans has a shift kit by Level 10 and this does well in
> firming shifts and staying on schedule when accelerating strongly from
> a dead stop. But when it comes to shifting up and down in traffic, I
> want my manual tranny back!
>
> Rob
>
> ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________
> Subject: 46RE & 46RH Difference was: DML: Short throw shifters -Reply
> Author: <dakota-truck@buffnet.net > at Internet-Link
> Date: 10/16/98 11:39 AM
>
> In a message dated 10/16/98 10:23:31 AM Central Daylight Time,
> rking@jjsnack.com writes:
>
> << Hey bthe trans cod eon my '95 Dak says 46RH. Does anybody know what
> the diff is between this and the previously mentioned 46RE?
>
>
> Rob
> >>
>
> H - Hydraulic
> E - Electronic
>
> They are the same except the RE has an electronically modulated line pressure
> solenoid with line pressure feedback to the ECM (ie - The ECM controls the
> line pressure on the throttle valve and therefore the shift points and shift
> durations). The RH is purley a hydraulic valve body with a hydraulically
> controlled line pressure. Both tranny's have two solenoids on the valve body
> - one for the overdrive, and one for the lock-up torque converter.
>
> Richard Lewis
> 92 LE CC, 318, Auto
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