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    5/31/2013 7:20 PM  #1

    Greg B
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    Found my transmission already had a Mr. Shift kit installed. update

    I tore down the AoD today to install the shift kit.   I started with the valve body.   Started noticing all the replacement springs were the exact same color I was taking out.   Took the overdrive servo out and bingo!   Washer under the servo piston.

    (If anyone wonders what the washers job is, it is to quicken the response time for full force clamping of the OD band.)

    I then decided to just look at all the accumulators and servos while I had it apart, and found the 3-4 accumulator seal was broken in half!   Wonder how that could have happened, and how it affected it.   I got this tranny used. 

    Try finding just the piston and accumulator seals.  That was a challenge!  However I found a company  Transmission Parts USA that had all the stuff I needed.    Wondering if I should have just rebuilt this whole tranny.  Although its been all clean and such so far.  

    Heres what I bought.  

    Seal kit for the pistons and accumulators.
    New Reverse piston and cover.
    I also bought a molded rubber 1-2 accumulator for an aod e.  Its much improved, and I read that it can be put into the earlier cases.  If not.  I have the seals for the telfon piston.


    Anyways, if there is a point here other than WYAIT,  its double check anything you can while things are apart.  Because you might find a problem before it becomes a problem!
     

    If multiple things can go wrong, the one that will go wrong will be the one that causes the most damage.
     

    6/02/2013 9:11 AM  #2

    jerseyjoe
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    Re: Found my transmission already had a Mr. Shift kit installed. update

    Same thing happened when we tore my C6 down...the guy I bought the Mach 1 from said the trans was in good shape with a manual shift  valve body...wellll not really It was a standard shift valvebody with a shift kit ,with shot third gear clutches,leaky seals and more.....jj

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    6/06/2013 5:59 PM  #3

    Greg B
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    Re: Found my transmission already had a Mr. Shift kit installed. update

    Transmission is all together!  Got my bottom small parts today.  Did the 2 accumulators and then the reverse piston.

    Then I pulled the front pump.  I figured out a trick to take the front pump off without a slide hammer.  There is two threaded holes where you put 3/8 bolts into on the pump to be able to pull it.  What I did was put 2 #6 machine screws down in those holes with the head pointed DOWN then put the 2 3/8 bolts in.  the bolts hit the screws and the pump came right off.   NO SLIDE HAMMER!

    Everyone should pull apart an automatic transmission if only to inspect the insides and marvel at how it all goes together.   Putting that OD band was a little bit of a trick for an unsure novice like myself, but I took my time and got it in.  

    What you would have to watch for,(and what happened to  me) is down inside just a bit there is a torrington bearing that has a shallow area it sits in.  If you pull the drum a bit forward, that can slide off center, then you have to pull some bands and plates, and that drum to reposition it.  

    Much easy to reinstall all of it with the transmission sitting completely verticle.   

    Fun experience, all in all.   Now I hope it works well!

    AND that much improved AODE 1-2  molded rubber accumulator is an exact match, and a perfect upgrade for the AOD.   I double checked it with a dial caliper.  

    Last edited by Greg B (6/06/2013 6:02 PM)

    If multiple things can go wrong, the one that will go wrong will be the one that causes the most damage.
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    6/06/2013 6:17 PM  #4

    josh-kebob
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    Re: Found my transmission already had a Mr. Shift kit installed. update

    greg
    thanks for the AT update and tutorial..........now be sure to let us know the results of your labor after the install and burnout......

     

     

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