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You can but your 1985 unit was designed to use a drum with a 2mm forward feed orifice in the forward drum. The 87+ 700s and 4L60Es all have drums with 6mm orifices as they were designed to work with a forward accumulator circuit. So your engagement into drive would be particularly harsh, especially when the vehicle is cold (i.e. sitting overnight). The reverse drum from the 60E is backwards compatible but likely not usable as nearly 100% of them are warped on the band surface so you're buying a new one anyway.
Nick can respond too, but not sure when he'll get here. I'd say, you're not getting lock up in 2nd I wouldn't think. Pressure switches should only allow that in 3rd and 4th sometimes just 4th. But I've never heard of a lock up in 2nd. But hey, maybe your set up and hook up doesn't require or depend on pressure switches and I guess that's possible, all in how you hooked it up and wired it. Obviously it's electronic. I'd have to say NO, you will NOT get them bolts out, even if they are exposed. They're to long and not going to clear without hitting the torque converter would be my thought. BUT, is it possible the bolts are loose? Can you get a wrench in there to reach them and get an idea of the torque on them? Don't overtighten whatever you do, you can easily stip those threads if that's not the problem already. Whoever built it, might have forgotten or didn't use the bolt washer gaskets, or under tightened or over tightened and stripped out the alluminum, which is easly fixed with helicoils but then you have to have the whole transmission out, and do it in a way you don't get shavings in the transmission. That won't be good either. But see if you can get a wrench in there and see if maybe a little snug if they are loose will correct the leak. Then you at least know what it's going to take to fix it.
The 82-86 valve bodies had three pressure switches to support a TCC strategy that locks the converter starting in 2nd gear to increase fuel economy. I believe some of the Corvettes and Fbodies had this feature, but don't quote me on that.
The one behind the dipstick tube on the firewall is the tip in switch for the ESC, so that tells me this was an OE 305 truck. The one behind the master cylinder is your TCC lock up vac switch.
Still got the original 305 with 200k. Smokes but still decent power considering its only a 305.
See, I learned something. I had never heard of there being a Vac switch for 2nd gear lock up. That's almost ridiculous really. As he said, that would get annoying. So maybe you can tell him which one would be the 2nd gear pressure switch and next time he has the pan off, I'd be pulling a wire off that dude for just a 3 and 4 TCC lock up options. yeah, I'd have never expected there to be a 2nd gear lock up.
Well when it dies you'll be getting a Tree Fitty. Rebuild kits and even crate engines are cheaper in 350 than Wee O Fives. Even the aftermarket world is tryna make the Wee O Fives extinct.
Compared to the 350 of the same year the 305 was only 5hp less. Down on torque but at least it had a high compression ratio for the time. The dual exhaust and tall air cleaner maybe freed up a few hp. I’m just happy it runs decent.
yes, But Torque is huge. See, we are trained to talk horsepower when horsepower doesn't matter near as much as torque. For what the 305 was and it's purposes it was certainly good in it's time and it pleased the Feds and that was the main intent of the 305, was to meet the EPA's FLEET requirement on Emissions and MPG. By that I mean, when the Gubment steps in and say we want these emissions and this much mpg in all the vehicles you sell, they're talking all the vehicles or fleet of vehicles they sell. So if they can get most of them to meet or beat that criteria, then some other models don't have to because the Fleet AVERAGE met the criteria. So they sold a whole bunch of LE9 trucks with ESC and made it standard equipment. This is also why we ended with trucks having overdirve and 2.73 or 3.08 gear ratios especailly when the speed limit was 55mph nationwide. Totally ridiculous, but they had to please the Feds and the computer technology wasn't there yet. Now we beat that criteria to all hell, and it's even tighter now and speed limits are 80 in some places and we have vehicles with 300hp as the norm and even in the 500's for the sport vehicles like Hell Cats, Vettes, Cad CTSV's etc. As Richard Petty said, HORSEPOWER sells cars, yes it does cuz that's the language we've been taught to speak, But TORQUE wins races. Richard Petty's famous quote in the winner's circle post interview I do beleive.
