thorton0

Transgo shift kit.

 

Also adjusting the calculated torque tables will get you 90% there unless you’re running a crazy high power setup.

 

I have the trans go kit. and its great.

but what about torque tables? I don't understand.

He told me that he doesn't do it anymore.

I installed a transgo kit last week. It's not to bad with climberd's walk through.

I have legacy gt wagon springs on legacy struts. I trimmed my rear bump stops. The only issue With the alignment is the rear toe is slightly out. I very rarely hit the rear bump stops.

It just seems that people over think it. As long as you do not go any lower than factory legacy gt.

update!! I removed the transgo kit from the purchased valve body and installed the kit into my vb. I found 1 small spring had been put in backwards. so instead of pushing on the ball bearing. the ball had actually pushed down inside the spring. (one end of the spring was larger than the other)

so the kit is installed and working well. problem solved and it shifts great

Old stock original valve body back in. Everything is good and normal. It appears to me the valve body I purchased is not working correctly.

Nothing. Idles perfect. Same with reverse, idles fine. 3 seconds after you go to drive, it stalls

so I can guarantee all valve body bolts are torqued to 80 in/lbs. atf checks perfect hot. shifts and runs perfect until it warms up. once the car warms up, it cannot sit still in drive without stalling, shifts start to get harder and more uncomfortable, and up shifts very fast(1st-5th before 20 mph under some load).

not sure what to do. looks like I am putting my old valve body back in and hoping that should work.

There's nothing wrong with resetting the TCU, it's just that 95% of the time it accomplishes no added benefit after it is done making learning adjustments.

I do not know what is wrong here. VB could indeed be defective. All VB bolts should be torqued to 80in-lbs (NOT ft-lbs), and trans fluid level should be verified while hot, engine running, after car has completed a full hot/cold drive cycle and cooldown, as I have seen a perfect level drop as much as a full quart.

thanks for the input. Especially about checking he level hot.

I did not read the service manual. I believe hexmods says not to do a reset.

I removed the pan and found 1 loose nut and 3 loose bolts. Everything else looks good. Not sure if that is my problem. But I tightened everything, RE torqued and I am putting the pan back on. Hopefully this solves my problems. Otherwise I will have to put my unmodified valve body back in.

Only thing I can think of is, did you reset ecu/bcm?

 

I did not.

I figure tomorrow I will take the pan off. If I do not see anything wrong, ill put the old valve body back in.

I had about a quart of extra atf in the transmission. I fixed that. Checks perfect cold. The shifting and down shifting seem to be getting better. it likes to up shift sooner than it should and it hates to downshift until the engine starts to stumble. I've driven maybe 5 miles, hopefully i'm not doing more damage than good.

Still stalling at a stop in drive.

Sitting on the brake in drive it stalls

Sitting on the brake in reverse, it idles fine

05 outback xt

I purchased a used valve body with a trans go shift kit installed. it supposedly had 140k miles on the valve body, 20k on the trans go kit.

so I did the swap/install and everything went fine.

-when I go to drive it will wait a second or two, then it engages the transmission enough to stall the car

-if I immediately start driving it will shift through 4th gear before 25mph

-it will not downshift itself until the car starts to stall in each gear

did I do something wrong? do I need to take it all back apart? is the valve body no good? should I put the original back in?

i'm stuck, not sure what to do. any help would be appreciated. thanks.

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i'm not sure what the big deal is. i bought used struts and springs off of a legacy gt wagon. direct swap, no problems, fairly easy. the alignment was aweful. so got an alignment asap. the alignment shop said my rear toe is just out of spec, but not enough to effect anything. i like the level stance, very little rake, no saggy butt spacers.my only problem is front tires rub at full turn or big bumps.