Engine stalling in gear?

[pontiacgp]

on the gauge there is an area that is marked for the valve timing..or at least on the gauge I have and I just have a cheap $30 gauge

if that transmission was built for a drag car then they might have locked up the lock up solenoid to cancel torque converter slippage in first gear since the lock up was never meant to work in first...and they may not have worried about reverse since they could just push the backwards when needed...

 

[custom442]

Wooohoooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I got reverse workin, hell ya... this is like one of the most exciting days ever.

I took about 1.5 quarts out of the trans, set the idle up a little higher :shock:, bumped back my timing a little and tried running it without the vacuum hooked up. I drove it around for about 10 min, and the rpms finally started to drop (guess the trans fluid hadn't worked itself in yet) and when I got home I said what the hell, and put it in reverse.... hell ya. I hooked up the vacuum again afterward and it works too, so that wasn't the problem.

If I would've taken it to a transmission shop the simple tune would've prob. costed over 300$.

And another quick story, I drove it in drive going down one of the backroads and dropped it in 2nd, didn't even take it over 3500rpms and yeeehaaw...lol im happy. This thing's gunna be a monster at 6000rpms with 3.50-3.73's...

And a huge thanks to everyone for brainstorming, you guys are the best

 

[pontiacgp]

:?

 

[custom442]

It was the weirdest thing, I couldn't get it to shove into reverse for the life of me. It's like there's a tiny timing band and idle mix ratio that it likes, it took me 7 hours today of tuning and tweaking, I was so close to taking it to a transmission shop and then.... :!: :!: :!:

I really think it's the transmission, the guy who I bought it from said it was built... I couldn't tell you what that entails cuz like I said I don't know trannys, but I do know he was running high 10's - low 11's with it, he showed me his time slips and even drove the car around the parking lot before I bought the trans. 550$ was a helluva deal that I couldn't pass up, I bought his shifter/cable for 150$ - I could've done better but for the money I saved on the trans I decided to go for it

I never thought about asking him to put it in reverse before i bought it but now I know :lol:

 

[pontiacgp]

I bet it was the lock up solenoid that was stuck....BTW you did fill up the torque converter before you installed it?

 

[custom442]

I bet it was the lock up solenoid that was stuck....BTW you did fill up the torque converter before you installed it?

Ya, I filled it up about all the way, 3/4 - 1qt of fluid, and clicked it in a few times, bolted it on with some grade 8 hardware... I'm just so relieved that it works. I still don't completely understand the lockup solenoid thing, I'm almost 100% positive that this is an older non lockup version as it has no wires going to it, and now that everything works I'm even more convinced.

I think mainly what it was... just guessing... was that the trans had been sitting for a while and everything just needed a little lubing? My cam is a sweet one for power, but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone else cuz tuning is a b*tch, vacuum is so low, now it's reading 9 in hg and that's just on the edge of where I need to be for streetability

 

[pontiacgp]

:?

 

[custom442]

like I said, I doubt it's a lockup. I thought it might be, but now I think it was just a tuning issue coupled with my crazy cam (which made things hard to tune w/out good vacuum). but sometime I'll crawl under or around and check the vin number so I can be sure... but then there's no telling what was done to it aftermarket

whenever the rpms drop after the trans shifts, it likes to stay around 1400. 1000 rpm would be really nice

 

[jrm81bu]

Even if the transmission was a lock-up, you're converter isn't. So it won't even have the internal clutch, meaning there is nothing in there to lock-up. Just throwin that out there. 🙂

 

[custom442]

Even if the transmission was a lock-up, you're converter isn't. So it won't even have the internal clutch, meaning there is nothing in there to lock-up. Just throwin that out there. 🙂

Ya, it just felt like something was locking up every time going in reverse. But I had my doubts about it ever since I got drive working properly, it didn't make sense at that point it could be the converter. My engine/trans combo was just like my girlfriend after that certain time, bitchy