Thanks looking at a replacement probably. A friend of mine owns a salvage yard and thinks he has a couple low milage ones. Good thing is that this is a 2nd car and is only driven once a week or so. I also added the Lucas slip fix additive when I refilled it.. I hope to get to spring beofre I have to deal with the issue again..

 

well starting to lean towards a replacement tranny... went for a real drive today and it wants to rev up instead of going into 3nd. If I let off the gas it shifts in correctly and downshifts are fine, I been researching this and see that it could be that the new solenoid that I put in is bad or that the filter never set correctly.. pain in the *** and I will pull the pan and look this weekend, but not sure if there is anything else to look at.. but I am finding mostly this "When the 4l60 trans shifts from 1st to 2nd and then when it tries to go to 3rd the engine just revs up, the 3-4 clutch has failed and the trans needs to be rebuilt. Sorry." which sucks and will = blazer sitting for sometime..

 

What does it do if you manually shift gear by gear it instead of just putting in drive ?

 

works fine

 

Just guessing here but if it shifts fine manually without letting off the gas you may have a small partial sludge plug off in the valve body.
You could prob get by for awhile driving it around and manually shifting till a transplant trans is located but for this one the clutch packs are past worn and damage is already done.

 

Well I am on the list for a rebuild.. with holiday expenses and a new furnace install it will be a bit but found a shop here thet will pull, rebuild and installl with warrenty for 950..

 

That's not too bad a price with them doing all the work - And ya I'm well aware of projects getting put on the back burner due to other things - luck to you.

 

thanks.. thought of pulling and installing it myself but not sure what I would be getting into. I would be working with it on jack stands... if it wasn't the big of a deal, changed the tranny on my Mazda 626 in much worse conditions, I could get it rebuilt for 450

 

 

Well, seeing that I have a 2nd car and time I have decided to give this a go at doing it myself. Pulling and installing the tranny myself will same me over 500... any "watch outs" that I should know of.. thanks