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Well I talked to two tranny guys today - took my valve body to two shops to ask their ideas. Tranny guy 1, an older guy, told me that this valve was deleted in the design around 1984 (my tranny is '86) and that the always-open valve was a normal result. He said he thought my stuck-in-first problem was something deeper in the tranny.
Tranny guy #2, the rastafarian, said that rebuilders often leave the spring out of that valve to create harder shifts and that it was no problem, but that I was missing 2 check ball valves - one in that jelly-bean shaped spot on the top left corner of the pic above and one off the pic on the right. He seemed sure that these two check balls were my problem and that I should bolt it up and be done with it.
Would have been nice if the old guy and the rastafarian saw it the same way... anybody ever leave out the check ball and find themselves stuck in first?
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