Re: new member, sort of- Transgo shift kits...

From: nosdakota (nosdakota@email.msn.com)
Date: Tue Oct 26 1999 - 07:26:01 EDT


that is exactly what I'm saying. be careful not to move it too much or make
sure to mark it's origional position, I didn't and it took me an hour of
messing with it to get it back to where I started. DOH! Don't ya hate
loosing over something stupid?
Joe W.
87 Shelby Charger 13.9
98 Dakota 13.1
----- Original Message -----
From: Bob Tom <tigers@bserv.com>
To: <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 1999 6:46 AM
Subject: Re: DML: new member, sort of- Transgo shift kits...

> At 10:27 PM 10/25/99 -0400, you wrote:
> >It's on the TB and is on the rear most part of the bracket, It can be
> >adjusted (on mine) by pulling up the retaining clip and moving the cable
one
> >notch at a time inward until the overrev is eliminated. I noticed that on
> >mine it still overrevs when the trans is cold but not when warm so I set
> >mine up when it was warm.
>
> Joe, do you mean moving the cable in the direction of the rad?
>
> >Has anyone else noticed this with the transgo kit?
>
> I experienced something like this last Sunday at the track for the first
> time. There was a nasty, biting, cold crosswind. Temp. was 45F-52F but
> don't know what the wind chill factor was. It happened on two runs
> (1st and 7th). I manually shifted the 1/2 at about 4700 rpm under WOT
> and it seemed to go into neutral. I've been trying to figure if it was
> due to the Transgo or me not hitting the shift position dead-on?
>
> The 2nd time was in round 2 of elimination and cost me a chance against
> the Street class points leader ... had a better reaction time than she
> did.
>
> I talked to the tranny guy yesterday and he said that very minor
adjustments
> could be done to the valve body but, because of the electronic control,
> not a whole lot. He suggested making a very small adjustment to the TV
> cable ... moving it towards the rad in order to lower the shift point a
bit.
>
> Bob. Southern Ontario, Canada.
> '97 FR CC Sport, 5.2L, 3.55 SG, auto.
> Racing weight: 4,350lb ET: 14.934 Trap speed: 90.78 mph



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