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2 wheel drive. I have an extra electric fuel pump for a 6.5 diesel motor, could I rig up some lines and try to run tranns fluid through (maybe warm trans fluid to help flow) the cooling circuit? I think the pump is around 12 psi or so if irc.

The older tranns fluid was a little dark, but the newer one wasn't.

I got some more info form my buddy about the timeline of things. He said the issue started all of a sudden, he thought it was the torque converter so replaced that with a new one, issue was still there, then he thought it was the tranns so replaced that with one he bought off of craigslist...

Fluid is good, the newer trans was bought off of craigslist so really just taking words that it works, but the problem is the same as the other. The torque converter came with the newer trans so diferent torque converter also but same problem. The solenoids and wiring that your talking about...

Does anyone think the throttle positioning sensor could be a culprit?

Dang, well I don't think that option is open to us with out going to a shop that has one. Looks like those scanners are around $500.

Would one of the readers that auto zone or o'reillys let you borrow be considered a good one? I think the other option would be to take it to a shop but we were wanting to avoid that lol.

We ran a scan tool but there wasn't any codes, it was the cheaper scan tools that auto zone or o'reillys sells.

My buddy has a 96 chevy 1500 truck. The motor has to rev to about 2500 rpms for it to drive in reverse. I think it takes about 4k rpms for it to go in forward gears. We swapped out the transmission and torque converter thinking that would work but it didn't. We also changed out the computer...

Well we had a warm day yesterday so I messed with the shoes and sure enough they were loose. I tightend the one side up and can notice a diferance when stopping with out my trailer. It still had low flow out of the bleeder valve but I'll do some more investigating when I get another warm day...

Ok will do, thanks for all the time and info. I'll re-post when I get it taken care of and let you konw what the problem was.

When I bled the brakes I did the 2 man way. I was opening and closing valves while my buddy was pumping brakes. Also we started at back passenger side then back driver side then front passenger side then front driver side. I'll try the things you mentioned, I'll probably check the shoes first...

The new line is the one with the low flow. When I checked the flow I was actually just bleeding the lines at the bleeder valve on the wheel cylinder (passenger side is the low flow side). So the bleeder valve was cracked open a bit. I made between 5 and 10 rounds bleeding all the brakes, The...

When I checked the flow, I checked it at the wheel cylinder but I replaced the line to take that out of the equation. I didn't clean the drum, I did spray pb blaster all over the place to help loosen stuff though. No fluid inside the drum anywhere. I might need to adjust the passenger side shoe...

There isn't a valve of any sort in the rear. The only thing I could see is the main brake line runs down the passenger side frame then runs into a "T" that's mounted on what I think is the rear axle housing (it's the bulky part in the middle of the axle, it may be the diff you were talking...