Recent content by Superbeedad

Beautiful car .. I am also yellow biased. It’s sets off the black and chrome exceptionally well imo. If I had the extra cash ...

Does the fluid smell burnt at all? Warped discs can jam up where the clutch can’t release .. causing it fight with another member.

Those dark pieces in the pan look like clutch disc friction material and the shiny pieces could be plate material. A rebuilt tranny and a new torque should be clean but the cooler and cooler lines should have been flushed out. Bands don’t typically flake apart .. they burn and wear but finer...

Doug is correct about the lockup clutch unless it is dragging. Another culprit is the overrunning clutch failed, jammed, or not sure on this trans but these can be put in backwards resulting in a lockup of the tail shaft. Regarding the engine, if the torque is working you should be able to feel...

....if it is locked up the car should still accelerate but very slowly until reaching a highway speed. If the car can’t gain any speed at all or can’t move, then something likely dragging in the trans.

Here’s a good reference on the lockup clutch. Personally I think it’s locked up. The valve body went through some changes as per article but all has to match up. https://www.allpar.com/mopar/transmissions/lockup.html

Does the engine rev up in 1st gear or does it lug. Does it do the same in reverse? If the converter is locked up the engine would lug. If the converter is fine and the transmission is dragging somewhere the engine will rev through the torque .. like doing a brake stand.

What does it do in reverse?

Adding a resistor is equivalent to a bad ground. Please don’t do that. You need a proper ground strap between the engine and the body .. usually at the firewall and back of engine.