Re: Ultramatic Hard Shifting into Reverse

Posted by JeromeSolberg On 2017/5/18 0:22:34

Thank you Fred. You have to appreciate my paranoia as if the transmission were to break from my negligence it is obviously an involved and expensive thing to rebuild!

So after adjusting the right-side adjuster, and thinking about it a little, I believe I probably adjusted the low-range band and not the reverse band. Probably the reverse-band adjuster is on the left-hand-side.

Reason being - reverse clunks just as before, but low-range clunks now, too!

So that is hopeful. Perhaps I just need to do the adjustment (correctly this time) to both adjusters (on the left side and the right side) and I can get it right.

Not sure whether I accidentally tightened it too much or too little - any thoughts as to which would cause it to "clunk". My thought is that it is probably not tight enough.

I found that the locknut didn't move too smoothly on the adjuster screw, mostly that was crud, which I did my best to clean off while I was underneath the car. Can I take the adjuster/locknut completely off so I can clean it up off the car? Or would that can something to come off inside the transmission?