It is a 1/8" pipe tap in the trans housing. I had to screw in the elbow first then the extension due to close quarters.

 

Alright gents, georgiahemi and I test drove truck with pressure gauge attached to governor port. Did it exactly as manual describes. Kept it under 30 mph, highest reading I could get is 25 psi @ 30mph. Started out cold and drove till warm and actually started acting up with check engine light coming on. Not sure how accurate my cheap gauge is but the needle was rising and falling nice and smooth, never exceeding 25psi. At idle, it was not reading anything, again possibly due to cheap gauge or 10ft of hose. The svc manual says if pressure is reading low, you have a bad sender/solenoid or transmission control module.

Any suggestions???

 

By the way, the manual calls for 3 psi @ idle, then add 1 psi for every additional mph. So, when we were running 30 mph, it should have been reading 33 psi.

 

Have you been in the pan yet? Check and see if the sensor/solenoid are clogged?

 

Had the pan off last week. Everything was clean, no debris in screen. I am thinking about just replacing the sensors with the updated BW parts and hoping for the best. I will also adjust the bands before we road test it again.

 

Sounds like a good plan to me.

Got a scanner you can plug in, and see what the PCM thinks pressures are, and compare them to what your gauge is telling you?

 

well not sure if you seen total wars thread but they had to replace the valve body to get his working correctly... it seems he had a plugged passage.... rebuilt valve bodies with the solenoids are under 300 bucks on ebay...

 

I wish I had one. I looked at buying one of the more expensive autozone tools ($200) that reads running parameters but Im afraid to spend the money and then it wont read the governor circuit.

 

I wonder what kind of pressure readings they were getting out of his old valve body.

 

No pressure if it was clogged.