Thread: Followed Me Home II

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I had the roadster loaded last night for the trip to the shop first thing this morning. Showed him that they had put in a B&M Shift Kit, Corvette Servo, 500 Boost Valve, High Energy 2-4 Band & friction set, and non-stick throttle valve when it was built. Got a call at 2pm saying "Come get it! It's good to go!" Turns out that sitting idle for 7 years in a mainly unheated barn space had rusted the 2 to 3 and 3 to 4/OD valves so they were stuck in place and not allowing the shifts. The 2 to 3 he was able to move with some lube, and once moving it freed up and was OK but the 3 to 4 valve wouldn't budge. It rides in an aluminum sleeve with lots of machining, and by the time he got the valve out the sleeve was in several pieces. Of course the sleeve is considered integral to the valve body and isn't sold alone, but he had a buddy at another shop that had a spare 700R4 valve body and he got the sleeve from it. My valve body had been modified, so simply swapping valve bodies would have lost all of that, or required uninstalling/reinstalling the pieces/parts. Easier and cheaper to just swap out the trashed sleeve & valve. Lighter by only $350 and it shifts like a dream!! That's why I like small, independent shops and won't go in the big name places that automatically drop the tranny and bust it apart, then announce "It's gotta be rebuilt". He also explained how the lock-up feature works, blocked until the fluid is up to temp, and how he wires them on non-stock applications. Something else to look at....

Next is alignment!