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How do you know if your governor is bad?
I'm having shifting issues on my TH 400. It won't come out of 1rst gear. The RPM will go up and never shift, especially when going up hill, and there's a pop that comes from the exhaust.
I pulled the governor out and it seems to be fine. The nylon grooves look intact. Is that the only symptom of a worn governor? I'm also replacing the vacuum modulator and changing the fluid and gasket while I'm at it. Anything else I should look at? |
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Re: How do you know if your governor is bad?
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If it is the modulator you should still be able to manually shift from L2 to L1 to D. |
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Re: How do you know if your governor is bad?
His last name is BROWN!!!!
Sorry I could not resist!! Cali guys will get it!!! check the modulator like Jonlopes said!
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Re: How do you know if your governor is bad?
i thought you recalled that guy then he is running things again? The 400 ought to powershift as it used to be called that is when it holds first and then hop to second after the rpms get so high. or maybe I just dreamed that. Jim
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Re: How do you know if your governor is bad?
That was another color Gray Davis was recalled. I just remember years ago where my vacuum line came off my modulator and it would not shift out of first gear
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Re: How do you know if your governor is bad?
Check the vacuum modulator, same thing happened with mine a while back. The vacuum line was cracked.
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Re: How do you know if your governor is bad?
XVIII. Posts regarding politics or religion are strongly discouraged. These posts tend to create pissing matches and will be closed.
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Re: How do you know if your governor is bad?
Please keep politics out of this, I do not want to close a thread in which the OP needs real help in fixing a problem with his truck. Thank you.
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Re: How do you know if your governor is bad?
Sorry I was just cracking a joke. My apologizes to guy dudebro and the rest.
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Re: How do you know if your governor is bad?
Your tranny is all over the map. Had that happen on a 78 Caprice. Amco said I needed a new tranny. The local replaced the governor for 60 bucks. But that was about 1980.
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Re: How do you know if your governor is bad?
Paging Moonbeam....earth to Moonbeam....how's your bullet train to Coalinga coming along....Phase 1 projected costs - $68 BILLION making it the most expensive public works project in US history...
Let me apologize now for the outburst....just explaining why I'll be leaving CA |
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