Hi,

Thanks for the kind words.
I just try to explain things in a logical manner that helps leads to a next thought, so, the person wanting to learn will stay in step.
I always hated when a teacher that would be explaining something in the textbook and just went with the authors “X” number, that magically appeared out of the air, into the next step of the illustrational example.
I still think the theory of Trigonometry ratios should be taught first, with examples of geometry and algebraic math mixed in.
IMHO, A random but and purposeful order of work is needed. This can teach better with an actual spatial problem involvement that crosses over into the process of measurement using the Cartesian and Polar Coordinates system. This would replicate the real world in the books.
It would help explain how Letters, used in language, suddenly can appear among the number system, that was taught completely separately, in our early schooling years!
I was doing good until the eighth or ninth grade and then my language and math skills had a collision!
I had to adjust my imagination like when the Indians got guns to use and were starting not to use bows and arrows!
All was moving fast like Technicolor and a Technological slap in the face at my tender age of 14.
The lead up to man on the moon 1960’s!

Now back to your issue.
Just something I was thinking about during our lapse of the Brickboard working.

It’s interesting that you say that when you back off the throttle, that the transmission doesn’t want to shift up a gear and try to coast along but it’s will be still pulling? There should not be a neutral feeling and no pulling along.
If you shove down on the gas only a little more than lightly the transmission should drop a gear and pick up the load.
If you tromp on the gas the transmission could drop two gears if you were truly going slow.

Art has a good picture of the kick down cable hook up at the throttle on his site Cleanflametrap.com.
It’s about halfway down the written article.
There is a lot of slack but the most important part, he stresses, is to has to click down at the transmission before the crimped on stop touches the cables sheath up at the throttle.
That cable has to set or allow the governing valve to shut against its stop.
If the valve is not against the stop it’s possible, in my mind, the fluid pressure that it controls might leak by some?
This would artificially raise the pressures with in the shifting valve body.
I’m only guessing, but again, in my mind, that could raise the shifting point program a little higher.
The kick down feature valve, pushes back on the shuttle valves, that control what the gears do.

Would that be something, that this is one system fighting against the other, internally?
I sure hope, this might be a maladjusted cable length. It a very long shot but might be worth checking out.
I remember Art saying that the cable sheath or housing can get cooked by the exhaust pipes!
I didn’t even know that the cable ran down on that side of the transmission!

I’m glad you mentioned how the transmission is shifting and working. One has got to love those small details! It helps to mention things that might seem trivial to you.
The part about explaining the differences of shifting up and down and using the kick down feature is a big difference!
Using the hand selector, to do it manually, is another subtle method, but it lends facts to the case!
I noticed the responses but the detail(s) of how cold or hot just doesn’t make it through the 30 sec. video.

I agree the transmission appears to be in good condition.

Phil