C4 Auto Tranmission slipping! Help!

Posted by Pegasus (IP: 207.90.225.119) on November 04, 1999 at 13:43:50:

Hi all!

JUST got the inspection sticker, tires and rims for my '76 Mav, looking good! And finally street legal to boot! Anyways, I'm having a very annoying problem with the transmission.

When I'm doing about 30 miles an hour (+-10 mph) and give it more gas the transmission seems to "slip", the engine builds up speed and eventually the tranmission "catches up" to the new throttle setting. This is a C4 Automatic transmission. I've checked the fluid level and its right on the money. The books I have show how to do a reverse and intermediate band adjustment. Why? What does the adjustment do? They never say WHY you'd want to do it, just how. I wonder if these adjustments would help me with the problem.

Any advice would be appreciated!
Pegasus

P.S. I hate working on Transmissions or air conditioners, everything else is fair game for this shadetree mechanic ;^)

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• Re: C4 Auto Tranmission slipping! Help! Charlie (IP: 131.204.59.116) 11/05/99 (3)
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  • Re: C4 Auto Tranmission slipping! Clarification Pegasus (IP: 207.90.249.231) 11/05/99 (1)
    • No, sounds like internal. too bad n/m Charlie (IP: 131.204.59.140) 11/09/99 (0)
• Re: C4 Auto Tranmission slipping! Help! rickyracer (IP: 209.20.173.75) 11/04/99 (1)
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