Greetings 1962-1965ers!
I'm a former subscriber, just rejoined, because now I have two vehicles of this wonderful MoPaR vintage:
A long-owned 1963 Plymouth Valiant, /6 225, three-on-the-tree...
A recently acquired 1964 (1963 titled as 1964) Dodge Motorhome (pre-Travco, but just like 'em), 318 Poly with pushbutton 727 auto.
The "Travco" has been sitting for nearly 2 decades near Sacramento, CA, until I took it out for a maiden trip all over CA and southern Oregon.
Motor is running great (with occasional blue smoke on the downhills), but the tranny is only responding to 1 and D:
2 is completely gone (we rev it up from first to get it into 3rd), and reverse doesn't work at all (was working fine until 2 days ago).
Mechanic in Sacramento dropped the tranny pan, replaced the filter, and topped it off with fluid (did not drain the torque converter or do any kind of flush, at my request). Fluid is horrible brown (been sitting in there for a LONG time), and symptoms as described above.
We are currently camped out at an RV park in Los Angeles--Are there any 727 tranny experts in the Los Angeles area? The OC? San Diego County?
I suspect linkage for the R problem (was working great until it stopped working, and pressing R doesn't pop it out of N automatically like it is supposed to).
I also have a 1972 Dodge B300 1-ton van (out of the scope here I know!) that has a problematic 727, but not as bad. I'd make a "best of" with both transmissions if that made sense, but the van is in Oregon, and I'm in Los Angeles.
I'm mechanically inclined, but do not want to attack a 727 tranny all by myself!
Feel free to email me here, or call me directly at (503) 781-0781.
Thank you so much, and great to be back in the community,
Scott
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