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sounds like a vavle body problem



thats what I thought of too. the valves can wear out over many many miles. Or some crap got in there and is blocking something.

I put aB&M shift kit in mine many years ago and it performed great. then the car sat for several years. I just put together a motor and started driving it again and after a few hundred miles, mine started freewheeling when I downshifted to first.

I changed out the valve body for a Turbo Action Cheetah manual/automatic valve body and everything is GOOD, and I mean real GOOD, now. shifting is tight, and problems went away