J-mod, how dificult for average DIY?

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Is it even possible to do the J-mod with the tranny in my car in the driveway? I haven't crawled under there to look at clearances, but it sounds like it isn't.

Scott

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I'm pretty sure you could, if you had some good ramps to drive up on.

If you look at the article written by a-train at Tccoa (the shift improver mod), it looks like the pictures are taken from his driveway.

The first Car I had it done to I chickened out and rolled in my buddies shop and paid. It was two hours of labor, so about $150 labor. I had the newer trans pan put in as well as the 1-2 accumulator/springs, and the 2-3 accumulator and springs. That was on my Mark VIII. I didn't drill out the seperator plate, although I wish i had. The car shift so perfectly now, it's an unbelievable diffrence. It's not rough at low throttle, but at WOT there's a nice chirp <IMG NAME="icon" SRC="http://images.zeroforum.com/smile/emsmile.gif" BORDER="0">

I helped out with my Super Coupe since the engine was already out for a swap. We didn't do the 2-3 accumulator just because I don't plan on keeping that car forever. It was super easy to do the mods. (especially since the engine was already out and the fluids were changed).

I woulnd't be afraid to do the next one alone in my driveway. It seemed scary because I have never done anything to a transmission before, but the actual process was fairly simple. Plus if you get in a bind you can always log on and ask the pros <IMG NAME="icon" SRC="http://images.zeroforum.com/smile/emsmile.gif" BORDER="0">

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I did mine in the driveway. I drove it up the ramps and then floorjacked the car as high as I could and dropped it on some jackstands. once you get the valvebody off, you are doing all the precision stuff on your workbench.

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Nevermind, I figured it out, I am an idiot....

What I was really asking about wasn't drilling the throttle plate, well, I was, but that's not what I meant.

I should have said tail shaft mod. Can I get another round of opinions, please?

Sorry,
Scott<BR><BR>
[Modified by Scottland, 4:35 PM 2/14/2002]

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When I mod mine over a year ago, I bought the Baumann kit. I then compared Jerry's mods to Baumann Mods. I also had the tranny manual that Jerry mentioned. Now I had three pictures of the valve plate plus my actual valve plate. Guess what, none of them matched. For the most part I could determine the differences. Baumann and Jerry were either identical or very close for most of the holes. I don't think Jerry was selling his plate back then. If he was it wasn't known on LOD. Today, I would just buy Jerry's predrilled plate. Other than this the whole job was a piece of cake. Although I have done everything else on a car, I had never opened an auto tranny(I haven't owned many either).

Phil