Left Handed Skyhook? - Orig Owner Story and Option

[3macs1]

I think Rick you and Charley may have just saved a pile of 68/69 engines with TH400. Bad images in my mind. Ok they said 6300 lets try 6500 maybe 7000. Wow what a bang. Where is all the smoke and oil coming from.
For what it is worth I could never get mine to do it between 2nd and third probally the just the driver.

[1970Bluel78]

I thought that there were only Left handed Monkey Wrenches

[77Z28]

Congratulations on the purchase just time for Christmas. How about posting some pictures for the rest of us. Enjoy.

Todd

[Bill Pritchard]

My friend Rick had a 70 L78 Nova w/ T400 brand new. He called it "Houdini" because it would do just as stated here. Pull the shifter (it had the floor mounted shifter with bucket seats & mini-console) down into low, nail it, and not only would the trans shift when it hit ~7K, but the shift lever would physically move up into the 2nd gear position

[flyingn]

Yea every GM automatic that I owned including the 200's from the 80's did this..

[Kim_Howie]

The first trans. to do this was the t-400 in the Gibb nova's. My understanding They had extra clutch packs just for this. All trans before this you had to let off the gas to get them to shift.

[PeteLeathersac]

So aside from M40's as orig. equipment in a '68 & up w/ L78 or better, no other '65 to '69's had this feature...but all '70 & up M40's did? .
And what about the 6-bolt torque converter M40's in commercial trucks...would they have had this pre '70? .

Where I grew up (have I yet?) apprentices were sent for a "Long Stand" and you were told to be specific that a short one just wasn't sufficient and stress that you really wanted the longest one available! . It took a while sometimes but after standing there waiting and waiting, it usually clicked...if it didn't, the guy was a marked man! .

~ Pete

[Kim_Howie]

I think all 400t's in solid lifters cars in 1969 had them. They also had the 6 bolt converter. A lot of taxis had the 6 bolt conv. but it's not the same type.