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Steve
Guest
This is either simple or expensive. My '85 RR with 4-speed ZF auto box
seems to lock up its torque converter a tad early. The gear changes from a
standing start are all there and nicely smooth but the converter locks up at
a fraction over 40mph (and unlocks at about the same on the way down). I
had another RR with a ZF auto some years ago which used to lock at around
50-52mph on the way up and unlock at around 49mph on the way down. I also
seem to recall from somewhere that the 50-52mph lock was about right and it
also felt about right - meaning that the current situation isn't. Locking
up at 40 puts the rpm down to about 1500 which seems way off the power band
for the V-8 (3.5 EFi) and, unless I'm just tootling up to the cruise, I have
to kick down for any sensible acceleration (when wanting to overtake for
example) or knock it back and hold 3rd on the shifter.
So, it changes up and down ok (although the changes seem somewhat
"compressed", if you know what I mean), the kick-down works fine (and it
will hold in a lower gear quite convincingly) and there are no leaks
whistles or wheezes from the box. Has anyone any ideas about how to bring
the converter lock into the usual place in the speed/rpm zone. Haynes, as
usual, is particularly vague (like, blank) on this problem.
TIA,
Steve
seems to lock up its torque converter a tad early. The gear changes from a
standing start are all there and nicely smooth but the converter locks up at
a fraction over 40mph (and unlocks at about the same on the way down). I
had another RR with a ZF auto some years ago which used to lock at around
50-52mph on the way up and unlock at around 49mph on the way down. I also
seem to recall from somewhere that the 50-52mph lock was about right and it
also felt about right - meaning that the current situation isn't. Locking
up at 40 puts the rpm down to about 1500 which seems way off the power band
for the V-8 (3.5 EFi) and, unless I'm just tootling up to the cruise, I have
to kick down for any sensible acceleration (when wanting to overtake for
example) or knock it back and hold 3rd on the shifter.
So, it changes up and down ok (although the changes seem somewhat
"compressed", if you know what I mean), the kick-down works fine (and it
will hold in a lower gear quite convincingly) and there are no leaks
whistles or wheezes from the box. Has anyone any ideas about how to bring
the converter lock into the usual place in the speed/rpm zone. Haynes, as
usual, is particularly vague (like, blank) on this problem.
TIA,
Steve