Re: IML: Care and feeding of 727 transmissions

["Klebert L. Hall" <swampyankee@xxxxxxx>]

>Subject: IML: From: David Whitney <david.whitney@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Stuff I never knew but should have been able to figure out for myself...
>
>This is a post from the moparts.com archives that I read while trying to
>figure out my TF's shifting problems.
>
>Quote --
>
>Never Never NEVER Ever EVER EVER shift a torqueflite into reverse before
>you put the trans in a forward gear!!!!!!
>It's best to start the car in neutral and then put the trans in drive (or
>any forward gear) first then shift into reverse. Esp when the tranny is
>cold.
>
>The low reverse band builds alot of pressure when first started and esp
>when the trans is cold and when you shift it into reverse first it SLAMS
>the band when it applies it and it WILL eventually break the low-reverse
>band.
>
>-- End quote
>
>This explains a phenomenon I and, undoubtedly, many of you have experienced
>-- the "THUNK" of putting the trans in reverse to get out of a parking
>spot.  I never thought much of it, considering it was common to all my big
>Chryslers, and added it to my long list of scary but normal Mopar noises.

   I always wondered why they thunked, too.
   On the other hand, these transmissions go a quarter-million miles between
rebuilds easy, reverse-first or not  - the above advice might be a little
_too_ careful, actually.
     -Kle.
     '69 Crown 4DHT




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