Mike Puckett
SCCoA Member
tried pulling out the TV cable a couple of notches. Well it shifted firmer but made it slip even worse. I pulled off the interstate and pushed it back where it was and then in one notch. Well that helped a lot but it would still slip a little going uphill if I accelerated. Then I bought a bottle of Lucas Transmission Fix that's supposed help slipping. Well that really helped a lot but I could still force it to slip after the tranny heated up. Next I bought a filter and pan gasket and changed it, what a mess. The old filter was black inside and looked like it hadn't been changed in a long time even though the previous owner said that it had been serviced 2500 miles before I bought it. I replaced the 5 qts that came out with synthetic B&M Trick Shift but left the rest of the fluid in since it had the Lucas stuff still in it and the color was still pink. I also added a Hayden 15.5" X 7.5" transmission oil cooler. I put metal braid on the hoses and covered the ends with heat shrink tubing before clamping. On the inlet side the tubing shrank right up onto the braid but the on the outlet side it's still unshrunk so I guess the cooler is working pretty well. The slipping seems to have stopped completely now and it shifts into O/D smoothly instead of lunging in like it used to. Hopefully now I won't have to get it rebuilt for awhile. I driving it to Carlisle next week so I hope it doesn't give me any trouble.