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Old 10-30-2001, 06:40 PM
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700r4 won't shift out of park

I still can't get my 700r4 to shift out of park. I took it out and had a transgo shift kit installed. I also installed a performance ind. TC. I filled the trans with about 8 quarts. I've started it and let it run and ran it through the gears. Fluid level is staying the same. I disconnected one of the lines and it is pumping fluid. What else could it be? The linkage hooked up and working fine. Could the TV cable cause this?
Old 10-30-2001, 06:49 PM
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Car: Camaro Vert
Engine: 355 HSR
Transmission: A4
Axle/Gears: 3.73 S60
Did you put your foot on the brake?

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Old 10-30-2001, 06:52 PM
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Yeah... is there some type of lockout switch or something?
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Are you saying that the shifter can move
through all the gears, but the car acts like it is in neutral with the parking brake applied ( can't be pushed )? Or does it act like it is in forward AND reverse at the same
time??
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Like it is in neutral
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Engine: 2.8 V6
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I wonder if your pressure regulator's in the bottom of your trans pan! If you rev the engine high enough in gear, does it start to creep forward?

Er, I should explain... I put the B&M Shift Kit into my trans myself. (I don't know if the TransGo kit touches the pressure regulator.) There's two grooves in the bore for the pressure regulator... one's a "step" in the bore, the other is a true groove. I used the snap ring in the first fake groove, since I didn't see the second groove. (It turns out the pressure regulator had to be almost bottommed out to see the 2nd groove!) Anyway, I put the pan back together, filled it with fluid, pushed the car outside, started it, and ran it through the gears. Then I went inside, changed, and came out, all happy to go for a drive. I put it in gear and "Vrooom!"- I went nowhere. If I revv'd the engine higher, the car would inch forward. My dad & I had to push the car back into the garage, I dropped the pan (all that new fluid wasted, dammit), and found the pressure regulator sitting there, laughing at me, taunting me, preying upon my buried insecurities, conveying a feeling inside like when remembering a missed opportunity that you always regret, like a --- Woah, heh, sorry!

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-Tom P (Hot rodded 1986 Firebird 2.8l)

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