Re: 51Packard's....51 Packard

Posted by Charles On 2010/8/10 18:12:07

8-10-10

Made a little more progress today. Now that the car is in a more favorable position, I was able to jack up the passenger rear tire. Following Ross's suggestion, I crawled under the car and used a screwdriver to turn the adjusting star wheel. Pushing DOWN on it, it wouldn't move. Kept working at it and it finally started turning. Turned it until I couldn't turn it anymore. Tried the wheel, but it still wouldn't move. Went back under the car and started jabbing the screwdriver at whatever it would reach in the drum from the access hole. SUCCESS! Wheel now moves!

Lowered the car and started her up. Tried the car in H and L again. Nothing in L. With all 4 wheels on the ground, I raced the engine and the car moved forward. When I say moved forward, the body moved but the wheels did not. More of a slight lunge. Really felt like it wanted to go. Jacked up the passenger rear wheel and tried again without a load on the wheel. This time nothing in L or H and tranny fluid is pouring out of it. I guess being at the angle forced more out the fill hole.

Next thing to do is drop the trans pan. I want to see if L doesn't work because of the holding plates slipping off the band. It happened before long ago. I can't remember if it was L or reverse that was affected back then. While the pan is off, I'll take the control valve body out and try cleaning it and the filter screen. Maybe that will fix the problems with H? That's for another day...