Re: [T3] auto kick-down switch

["Aaron Pollard" <apollard@gte.net>]

You might try checking the vacuum hose from the intake air distributor (on
fuel-injected models) to the transmission body.  I had problems like yours
and found that it was partially related to this hose.  It's worth a try if
you haven't already checked it.

Later!
Aaron >:) >
'69Ó
-----Original Message-----
From: Sonny8oy@aol.com <Sonny8oy@aol.com>
To: type3@vwtype3.org <type3@vwtype3.org>
Date: Sunday, August 02, 1998 7:55 PM
Subject: Re: [T3] auto kick-down switch


>In a message dated 8/2/98 7:39:12 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
gregm@vwtype3.org
>writes:
>
><< If you're driving around without your switch, you know what it's like
when
>it makes that shift into second waaaay too early. >>
>
>i have a switch, but also have these symptoms - guess i'll change it for
the
>spare one i have, see if it makes a difference.  previously, was your car
very
>slow to kickdown, i.e. only if it really had to on a steep slope?
>
><<Bentley says that with the kick-down engaged, that shift can occur
anywhere
>between 31-40mph>>
>
>mine won't even kick down into 2nd at that speed.....
>
><<Where do other folks find that their auto trannies shift into second
under
>hard acceleration?>>
>
>no more than 10mph - way too early.  haven't had more than 40mph out of
second
>either.....
>
>sonny
>
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