Robeffy
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- 2018
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- Cummins 6.7 TD
Hi All,
I have a 95 Ram 1500 4x4, rust free ( go figure ), original paint, 318 with automatic. I bought it off a farmer type old timer who oil sprayed it every year and hardly drove it. His son decided to overload it and messed up the tranny a bit, overheated it. It has about 100,000 miles on it. It had the keg manifold blown gasket that I fixed with the Hughes Engine kit.
I have drained and replaced the tranny filter, and installed a drain plug on the pan. Put in a bottle of Lucas stop slip stuff and it is almost perfect, just slips on the 2-3 shift if there is no load / super low throttle.
Seem to me that as soon as there is some throttle / load, the revs are up enough that it shifts perfectly.
I wonder if there is low tranny oil pressure?
Also, taking the Lil Red intake manifold off. Whenever you drive it and shut it off, there is a coolant leak from the back of the motor, on the drivers side. This motor has never been touched, a 1979 360 E58 Police Interceptor motor.
Any thoughts on since I have the intake off, what else should I look at while I am that far into it?
Thanks in advance.
Rob
I have a 95 Ram 1500 4x4, rust free ( go figure ), original paint, 318 with automatic. I bought it off a farmer type old timer who oil sprayed it every year and hardly drove it. His son decided to overload it and messed up the tranny a bit, overheated it. It has about 100,000 miles on it. It had the keg manifold blown gasket that I fixed with the Hughes Engine kit.
I have drained and replaced the tranny filter, and installed a drain plug on the pan. Put in a bottle of Lucas stop slip stuff and it is almost perfect, just slips on the 2-3 shift if there is no load / super low throttle.
Seem to me that as soon as there is some throttle / load, the revs are up enough that it shifts perfectly.
I wonder if there is low tranny oil pressure?
Also, taking the Lil Red intake manifold off. Whenever you drive it and shut it off, there is a coolant leak from the back of the motor, on the drivers side. This motor has never been touched, a 1979 360 E58 Police Interceptor motor.
Any thoughts on since I have the intake off, what else should I look at while I am that far into it?
Thanks in advance.
Rob