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TapShift helped my laggy 2-1 shift problem in stop 'n go

SaukRapids

SaukRapids

I can't car too good.
I looked around and wasn't sure if anyone's brought this up. I was stuck on the freeway and that slip was giving me a real bad time, couldn't find the right speed to keep it from continually hitting the gears hard.

I used manual mode and left it in second. It did downshift around 5mph iirc, but it also started from a stop in 2nd if the paddle was pressed. Doing this didn't completely remove the situation, but it did help quite a bit. Might help me nurse it along a little further.
 


It's been goin good. Things calmed down after moving just in time to start the holidays, lol.

The Blazer's still running along, but my motherboard died a couple weeks back. It always was a little funky, then my daughter followed me for a bath wearing my shoes and shocked the hell outta the case. Time for a new one anyway. 990 chipset probably, but 970 does the job just fine too.. so idk.

The shift kit's installed and I had concerns about the cold weather because of the friction modifier (lucas). It was below 0 a few nights, and no chuggy/sloppy shifts on cold fluid so no issues there. Saving for the paint's become more of a chore lately, but still hoping for next year. C'mon Blazer.. One more year! Lol

Edit: We didn't get snow this year till a couple weeks back. Hundreds of accidents. The car saw 90 minutes between two days of road crap, and that's enough. I'm fairly certain they started using mag chloride up here since last winter. Yuck.
 
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If it gets too much colder you might need a heating pad on the trans pan... I just gooped a bunch of RTV onto the pad and stuck it on, then went around the edge with more to seal it from moisture getting in... I've got a 125w pad on mine, it keeps the fluid thin enough to get me going without an issue. If I don't plug it in I'll get some slipping at first, in first, but then it goes just fine...

If you can get a tuner, raising line pressure by 5-10% really helps.

Sucks about the motherboard, hopefully the rest of it is still salvageable...

That's the one thing I'm thankful for, up here it's too cold to use salt, it wouldn't do anything regardless. Just small gravel at intersections and plowing the worst spots every so often... The roads are pretty much just sheets of packed ice, and they stay that way until spring.
 
Do you have a tuner Rapids?? If so adjust the line pressure up as much as safely possible. The Tap shift has higher line pressure so sometimes it bypasses the common issues caused by low pressure
 
I don't have a tuner unfortunately. I remembered from my two older cars that the "performance shift" raised line pressure. Figured the same trick was at work here.

Thanks for verifying, rick.
 


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