Re: band adj

[William Cole <wedge64@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Don,
Could you give us people that missed that adjustment procedure a rundown
on how you adjust the band again? I must have missed that one.

Thanks,
Bill C.
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:38:03 -0400, "Don Dulmage" <big-d@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
said:
> 
> 
> So how did i get to doing it that way. I had a trans built for my Hemi
> forst by a local shop. It lasted till the first trottle squeeze. They
> tried again a couple of times. Then i met a guy named Wayne Town. Wayne
> is a mech and drag racer and hot rod builder. He was at the time working
> in a Chrysler dealer doingtrans. He told me forget thatFAm adjustment .
> do it this way and it will never be too tight or too loose no matter what
> ratio arm you have on the band. I had another friend from years ago who
> was the tranny guy in Kingston Mopar dealer I asked him and he aid hedes
> itthat way too. I didit then on my own as i started doing my own trans
> (cause they would last.) I used the tricks these two fellow wrenches
> taught me and never lost a band since.Sometimes guys at the ground level
> figure things out that work. Since i know and you know if it came back
> they re do for nothing (Flatrate mechanics dont get paid for their
> atendance only by the job and messups are fixed for free so yo
>  u try real hard not to have any. )i know as a professional wrench that
>  you dont ever want that to happen and i knew both these guys to be
>  successful at what they did so i tried it.turns out they were right
>  therwise I would have found that out by know some 33 years after Wayne
>  showed me.
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