Transmission #3

The TH350 I put in back in 1991 never did want to shift into third under load- I always had to baby it for the second-third shift.  This was a headache when climbing steep grades at highway speed, but it was a disaster at the dragstrip.  I had to back off to half-throttle with a few hundred feet left to go on the quarter-mile.  Luckily, I spotted this transmission at the junkyard: a freshly-rebuilt TH350 (it was much cleaner than anything else on the car, a fairly straight 6-cylinder '76 Chevelle with a dozen San Francisco parking tickets still under the wipers).  I put a shift kit in it and it worked perfectly- even with a locker I can get plenty of rubber going into second gear, and third is good and solid, too.  Once the rainy season is over, it's back to the dragstrip for me.