Holding gear to long, won't upshift

[1ARUNEM]

Guys,
Started having a prob with my trans in the 87 T yesterday. Basically stock car with stock convertor. Car has always shifted 1-2 very firm. Yesterday it started riding out 1st gear excessively long before finally upshifting. Once in 2nd, it would ride 2nd out way too long. Even if I came off the throttle it would not want to shift. If i run it well on up and then let off, it would finally upshift. If i normally accel it will run the gear on up and when I let off it the rpm's will drop like it upshifted but it didn't. Rpm's will drop to around 1000 rpm. Then when I give it more gas, it's almost like it's freewheeling till it gets back up around 2-2500rpm or so.

The times when it does upshift, (after i let off the gas) and then give it more gas, it will violently downshift and run the gear on up again.

I have adjusted the TV cable per the preferred method. The tranny fluid is full.

Any idea's before I have to bring it to a tranny shop?
Thanks in advance..

 

[Dusty Bradford]

Disconnect the TV from the throttle blade and bring the rpm's up to 2500-3000 then pull and release the TV cable several times. Sounds like your TV valve is sticking. If this doesn't help then you'll proabably have to go in it.

Mine did something similiar. It would not change out of first no matter how fast I went. Vince Janis told me to try this. It didn't work and it turned out I had some metal stuck in my TV valve. It came from my front pump when it broke several weeks before. The car drove fine when I put the pump in, got in it to come to work one day and it wouldn't shift.

 

[2quiktocare]

If that doesn't do the trick, you may also want to drop the pan and check for a small governor spring in the pan. It may have popped off on you also. Keep us posted. We will do what we can here to help you out.