Powerglide damage from 'clicking' engine off in lights

[Kevin Panzino]

Gents, how are all of you who shut the engine down at the traps keeping the powerglide alive?? Roller bearings? Run high fluid level?? Other tricks?? Pretty sure some of the recent glide issues I have been having are from this... Anybody run an oil pressure accumulator so that you dont have to kill the engine in the lights to keep oil pressure whilst braking hard??

Any and all input welcome.

Kevin

[Dragsinger]

what about shifting to neutral and let the engine idle

[Kevin Panzino]

Problem is I still loose engine oil pressure when I do that... Even with the trap door in the steff's pan and 5 quarts of oil. 6 quarts is Ok though...

Perhaps I need to restrict more oil from going 'upstairs'....

Or maybe running 6 quarts isnt really any power loss than running 5... Never did a back to back, but enough guys on here are running only 4 quarts, I figured there is something there....

[Bobby Zlatkin]

Shifting a powerglide into neutral in the lights can be very dangerous. It's very easy for it to slip into reverse if shift linkage isn't adjusted just right, and that will make car control very difficult. I was racing a guy in Gainsville several years (1985 bracket finals) ago and he lost control. Crashed in front of me then came across the track behind me and hit the other guardrail. They took him to Shands Hospital in a hellicopter as he really messed his ankle up bad..

[1320racer]

pushing the shifter into neutral in the lights with any trans other than one having a clean neutral is very dangerous and countless racers have lost their car and ended up in the hospital because of it.

[Ed Wright]

Clean neutral is the only way to go unless you want to run a lot of oil. Besides the oil pressure issue, I don't want me engine gearing down from 8500 or more RPM. I push mine in neutral and click it off in the lights. Clean neutral is the next position forward of high gear, no problem with putting it in Park. Park & normal Neutral is at the back.

[Bill Baer]

Unless you have aluminum rods leave it in hi gear.as far as the accumulator, it takes longer to lose oil pressure and longer to get it back too! I took mine off after one season.

[Jody Lang]

Originally Posted by Kevin Panzino

Gents, how are all of you who shut the engine down at the traps keeping the powerglide alive?? Roller bearings? Run high fluid level?? Other tricks?? Pretty sure some of the recent glide issues I have been having are from this... Anybody run an oil pressure accumulator so that you dont have to kill the engine in the lights to keep oil pressure whilst braking hard??

Any and all input welcome.

Kevin

Kevin, what issues are you having?

[Kevin Panzino]

Originally Posted by Jody Lang

Kevin, what issues are you having?

Jody, burnt up band and high clutches, even though they are not slipping at all during the pass....

[Jody Lang]

Originally Posted by Kevin Panzino

Jody, burnt up band and high clutches, even though they are not slipping at all during the pass....

I don't think shutting motor off would do this. I shut mine off and have only burned up high gear clutches when my line pressure was too low. Do you know what your pressure is?

Does it still shift hard before you take it apart?

Aluminum drum?