Re: [AMC-list] first issue with rosie. only minor.

[Frank Swygert <farna@xxxxxxx>]

Sounds like you have a leaking or stuck valve in the valve body. I'd try removing and cleaning that real good first. The only thing that works in second gear only is the front band. The servo that operates the front band will come out once the valve body is out. You can't replace the front band, but can adjust it and if the servo O-ring is bad can replace that. So what I'd do is pull the valve body, disassemble and throughly clean it and replace any o-rings (standard hardware store o-rings are neoprene, which should work fine). I'd also pull the front servo and replace the o-ring on it. It's a big one, somewhere around 2-3" diameter IIRC. Then reassemble and adjust the front band. That should do it! If not the front band is probably shot, or the drum worn down to the point the band won't hold it tight enough. I've seen that, but only when there was a malfunction that caused the front band to drag all the time or the band was so far gone it scored the drum badly. In other word
s, that's not likely, but finding a new drum might be hard if it is. My own trans malfunctioned and dragged the front band, burning the drum real bad, but that was a fluke. Luckily I had a parts trans! 

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Date: 19 Jan 2010 09:34:17 -0000
From: das24rules@xxxxxxxxx

anyone know what to do with the trans issue i have? it wont hold 2nd gear. hit
about 10-15mph, hits 2nd for about 2 seconds and is in 3rd. even at 15mph.
only way to hold 2nd, start out in L, hit d2, and when it shifts to 2nd, drop
back to L till i want it to shift to 3rd. it will NOT kick down either. i have
adjusted up the tv cable. and did frank s. suggestion of adjusting the tv
cable a tad tight. no change. leaky valves in the trans? need to look for new
filter? i dont know. does not have any slip at all. just shifts to soon, and
will not kick down right. 

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