- Jul 6, 2014
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Good morning. Through the weekend I spent several hours of triumph and failure while working on the escalade. To keep a long story short, I did the CT power train kit with pinless accumulators like so. 1-2 I used the pinless and left factory springs in. 4th in the trans case, I didn't flip and used the white spring CT power train supplied. Did the vette servo and all the other parts as described by transgo.
So this is what happened. Put in 5 quarts, drove down the block. Felt pretty good until stopped. Upon taking off it just felt sluggish. Like you had to give it a ton of throttle to start rolling but once it was it felt fine. Truck wouldn't creep. That meaning foot off the brake it wouldn't move up. Drove it in manual, it has first. Click to second and nothing click to 3rd and it bangs then doesn't drop into od or 4th. Trans started getting hot so I brought it home before any damage occurred (only 150 degrees and like 2 miles but no slipping was felt, however this truck takes forever for the trans to warm up...) let it sit while I cleaned and then pulled it in the driveway. While doing that, creep came back and it wasn't sluggish off the line. I noticed the CEL on. I did not pull the codes because it was late. I have no clue what to do from here, but I am thinking maybe the vette servo is a little messed up and possibly a solenoid went out. If anyone has any ideas, I am all game. The first cycle did feel like I had a new trans under me so it did seem to work but who knows anymore.
Thanks,
-A very sad Paul
So this is what happened. Put in 5 quarts, drove down the block. Felt pretty good until stopped. Upon taking off it just felt sluggish. Like you had to give it a ton of throttle to start rolling but once it was it felt fine. Truck wouldn't creep. That meaning foot off the brake it wouldn't move up. Drove it in manual, it has first. Click to second and nothing click to 3rd and it bangs then doesn't drop into od or 4th. Trans started getting hot so I brought it home before any damage occurred (only 150 degrees and like 2 miles but no slipping was felt, however this truck takes forever for the trans to warm up...) let it sit while I cleaned and then pulled it in the driveway. While doing that, creep came back and it wasn't sluggish off the line. I noticed the CEL on. I did not pull the codes because it was late. I have no clue what to do from here, but I am thinking maybe the vette servo is a little messed up and possibly a solenoid went out. If anyone has any ideas, I am all game. The first cycle did feel like I had a new trans under me so it did seem to work but who knows anymore.
Thanks,
-A very sad Paul