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Re: 69 SB automatic


On 11 Jul 97, Allan Erush wrote:

> don't know how he got hooked into the email...but i've also found my
> Herbie and SUPERBUG tapes not rewound and filed in the wrong
> places...also  some oil spots on the living room rug...but I can't
> PROVE anything weird is going on.

I just hope you're keeping it away from that cute little Ghia next 
door!

>    Anyway I've checked the auto trans fluid many times, and had it
> changed at the garage. The level is ok. Haven't tried adjusting the
> linkage yet, but I can row the shifter through the gears and always
> engage reverse, but almost never a forward gear after the first
> time. Anymore suggestions??pleeeeeeezzzz???

This might be a good time to buy the Bentley manual.  I have found 
the AT to be the hardest part of the car to understand, but that may 
be just because I haven't been inside a dozen of them.  That's okay 
I'm content to leave it that way.  As to suggestions....

When the fluid was replaced, was the pan dropped and the strainer 
cleaned?

Consider adjusting the bands with Bentley's help.

> in sync, but it runs great now. The actual point I'm trying to get
> to here is that there was no remains of a kickdown switch on my car
> when I got it..I've never even seen one so I can't fabricate
> one..When the kickdown switch is engaged by the throttle what gets
> switched where to make the car downshift? Does a switch get grounded
> or power applied to it?? Could someone explain it to me so I can
> hook one up and tell my car he's getting a TURBOCHARGER that will
> make him overtake other cars like the were standing still......

The kickdown switch is mounted on the left side of the intake air 
distributor on FI cars; 69 cars have a unique mounting that I have 
exactly one of that is pretty awful.  It attached to the two oil 
cooler bolts.   I don't know how it was mounted on the dual carb 
setup.  BTW, there was a special vacuum modulator for the AT with 
dual carbs.

The kickdown switch sent 12 V to the kickdown solenoid in the AT when 
the throttle was fully depressed.  This signaled the AT to shift down 
1 gear if the RPMs weren't too high.

Jim
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       Melissa Kepner                                    Jim Adney
       jadney@vwtype3.org              jadney@vwtype3.org
                             Laura Kepner-Adney
                             Madison, Wisconsin
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