Fishy, THAT WAS THE TICKET. WOOO HOOO! Thank you thank you thank you ten thousand times over. Your description was close enough for me to know what ya meant after having to mess with it all summer ( I have literally pulled the pan and valve body no less than six times in the last few months trying to figure it out and make sure I didn't screw something up with the valve baddy assembly and adjustments. I am really really fast at it I can have the valve body completely out in about 15 minutes after lifting it with the hoist:headbang: )
Buddy of mine had argued with me about it (he has built many many auto's) when we originally set-it up and had said he thought that it should be adjusted the way you described, I didn't listen because my manual describes it as holding the lever on the tranny in the forward position and adjusting the slide bar linkage at the carb so that there was no slack in it in the closed throttle position. Or something to that effect, I will drag the book home from the shop and post what it says more accuratly, cause this just may help others in the future, LOL.
I don't have a stock 904, mine is rather , uhmmmmmm, seriously altered, I did a low and second gear swap, shift kit'ed and complete re-build and have been trying to work the bugs out all summer. It's my first auto tranny (I am old school row thru the gears and just don't quite have the knack with the auto yet. It still dosn't want to shift up into second gear until 20-21 mph at part throttle and 3rd is way up at around 37 mph at part throttle, but at least now if I stand on it in drive at 35-55 mph it shifts down to second which I hadn't been able to get it to do. Won't kick down at anything above 56 mph (is that bad?) and I cant get it to kick down from second to first unless I am doing like 16-17 mph which is like right next to where it down shifts to first on it's own when just slowing down. TCI Trans Scat kit for the rebuild and valve body and I am pretty sure I set it up for heavy duty use ( I am planning to be able to pull a small travel trailer with it) and have it also set up for full manual shifting so that if (not that I would) I wanted to pull it down to first manually, at say 60 mph, it will go!
I just luv the cool factor of cruising along at 30 mph and having some youngin coming along in his coffe can exhausted ricer pulling up next to me and hammering on it (and because they all have watched that stupid "The Fast and The Furious" they think that they have a fast car) and all I do is lean my big toe on the throttle and she kicks down on her own and screams. Always draws big dumfounded grins when the old guy with the old car does that to them, especially my semi sleeper lookin Dart. I hated having to reach up to the dang column shift and manually pulling it down to do that (even though I have it set up to do it manually if I wanted, LOL. Thats for racing though.)
Trader-reed, I am terribly sorry to have jacked your thread. Again, that is an outstanding rig man, I LIKE IT! Wish I had the money to build me one. Thanks for the info on it and the pics. Where you at, or more acuratly where was that beach pic at? Fl? Oh, and who's the hot chick on the beach? LOL
I am just guessing you built it I take it? Was it a difficult swap/conversion? Definatly keep us posted on what you find out. Btw, if ya havn't check out the bulletin boards at ORC, here is a link to their main bbs index
ORC Index, they just started up a new forum for RV's campers and stuff, but it really hasn't taken off yet (sometimes takes awhile for a new forum to start rolling) but you may find the dodge forum to suit you and I am sure thet if you post about your willys in some of the jeep boards you'd find others who are into them. And the jeep short wheelbase forum rocks and is one of the most active forums I have ever read.
and one of my twin boys.
