Need help with Transgo Shift Kit

[307 Regal]

For all of you who have installed a Transgo Shift Kit in your 200-4R transmission, how many check balls did you have left over? I have 11 checkballs and if I'm reading the instructions correctly I'll only be using 8 of them and the gold check ball included in the kit. The trans is still in the car and I didn't do the best job taking the valve body out so I have no idea where they all went. Any help would be great. I can't find anything online as far as diagrams.

 

[beermonkey9417]

i think theres supposed to be 11, i dont remember but i do know there are 3 that go in the valve body and the rest go i the trans. ill have to find my video i used to do it. oh and to keep the balls in check(pun intended)use plain petrolium jelly and goop em in to keep them from falling out. i was lucky enough to do my rebuild with the trans outso the way it works is with the valve bodya and all the gaskets off you have to goop the balls where there supposed to go via yer diagram, then put the case gasket on and the metal plate then the valve body gasket, then that thing with the 3 bolts, then put the 3 check balls in the valve body, and then bolt the valve body on each biolt being i think 19 in/lb...i think.

 

[307 Regal]

Yea, you're right about the 3 that go in the valve body. One of those is being replaced with the new gold colored ball. The other 6 mentioned are going on the plate before I put it back up into the trans (with petroleum jelly as mentioned). That'll leave me with 2 balls unaccounted for (NO pun intended). I heard B&M has kits that just exclude some check balls and I was wondering if this kit was doing the same. If not, I'm gonna need to find a diagram or something to see where they go. Thanks for bringing up the torque specs btw.

 

[307 Regal]

Well it was a nail biting pain in the butt the whole way for a rookie like myself, but I finally got the kit installed and man is it nice! I mean it's still painfully obvious that I'm running a 307 with 2:56 gears, but I've got the nicest shifting slow car on the block. :lol: Makes cleaning up all the tools soaked in trans fluid a little easier.

 

[JBreu]

Well it was a nail biting pain in the butt the whole way for a rookie like myself, but I finally got the kit installed and man is it nice! I mean it's still painfully obvious that I'm running a 307 with 2:56 gears, but I've got the nicest shifting slow car on the block. :lol: Makes cleaning up all the tools soaked in trans fluid a little easier.

Congrats on having the nuts to do that yourself..... Good JOB 8)

 

[307 Regal]

Thanks. 🙂 Gotta admit though, it would have taken much longer than it did if I didn't have my dad giving me pointers. For instance, I had no idea what "spring clips" were (let alone what a "spring clip tool" was) before I started this project. ha

 

[beermonkey9417]

congrats on getting it done!, now yer next job should be changing out them rear gears.

 

[307 Regal]

congrats on getting it done!, now yer next job should be changing out them rear gears.

If I wasn't saving my cash for a paint job and rear bumper fillers, I would definitely be getting those gears changed. Unfortunately though, I do have a little bit of a rust problem, hence the angry signature. Need that paint job.
.....on the other hand if I come across a good deal on a differential or rear end, I'm not sure what's gonna keep me from jumping on it. Kinda hard keeping your priorities straight sometimes.. lol