Hey everyone, its been awhile since I have been on here. Hope everyone is doing well!
My 66 Cruisers Flightomatic has been having issues for the past 5 years, it drives OK, but it is not right.
The car sat from winter 2012 to summer 2014, and it started having issues where it would hang onto second gear, and upshift late, or slowing down, it hangs onto third gear and will suddenly clunk into second when almost stopped. It started slipping and I took it to the transmission shop we used at work in 2016, they rebuilt it, and it still does the same thing, but a little worse. Even has the front servo snap from the case, and they rebuilt the trans again in summer 2017.
If I give it wide open throttle, it climbs, then flairs up between first to second and second to third, that was never an issue before the first rebuild. The transmission shop has since closed down, the owner was in his late 80's. I even took it to another shop that has experience with Stude transmissions.
I have even set the TV cable myself to the 65-66 Supplement to the shop manual. I fear the clutches might be worn, or a band issue. The buzz has almost gone away, but it still hangs onto gears and flairs up between hard acceleration.
I have access to two GM transmissions, a th350C with lockup converter and a 200-4R that I have had in storage for years, I have been debating putting one of them in for awhile now, unless anyone has any info or tips on the Flightomatic.
Thanks for your time,
Eric Harnett.
My 66 Cruisers Flightomatic has been having issues for the past 5 years, it drives OK, but it is not right.
The car sat from winter 2012 to summer 2014, and it started having issues where it would hang onto second gear, and upshift late, or slowing down, it hangs onto third gear and will suddenly clunk into second when almost stopped. It started slipping and I took it to the transmission shop we used at work in 2016, they rebuilt it, and it still does the same thing, but a little worse. Even has the front servo snap from the case, and they rebuilt the trans again in summer 2017.
If I give it wide open throttle, it climbs, then flairs up between first to second and second to third, that was never an issue before the first rebuild. The transmission shop has since closed down, the owner was in his late 80's. I even took it to another shop that has experience with Stude transmissions.
I have even set the TV cable myself to the 65-66 Supplement to the shop manual. I fear the clutches might be worn, or a band issue. The buzz has almost gone away, but it still hangs onto gears and flairs up between hard acceleration.
I have access to two GM transmissions, a th350C with lockup converter and a 200-4R that I have had in storage for years, I have been debating putting one of them in for awhile now, unless anyone has any info or tips on the Flightomatic.
Thanks for your time,
Eric Harnett.
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