Testing the Flame -O- Matic C6 transmission

All this talk of the flames out of the transmission dipstick roasting that previous plenum had me thinking I've never tested that transmission. Since that engine hasn't run in a while I thought it would be good to stir its juices and test the transmission for a quick functional test.

I rigged a quick ignition system and would run the engine off of carb clean or something along those lines.

I jacked up the back axle placed jack stands on both sides for safety.

The transmission cooler line is a loop back into the transmission. It's short 10 second runs since there is no coolant with time to cool down between runs.

I placed the transmission in solid green dot drive (remember this is a '66 C6 with a dual range valve body and the only year C6 like this). The first run the wheels engaged but it didn't shift and I had the throttle body manually set open for about 2500 - 3000 RPM's. Huh, then I remembered I'm an idiot and forgot to plumb the vacuum line from the throttle body to the stainless line that ran down to the modulator. Ran it again and this time two solid thumps in the chassis and the rear wheels went into warp with the engine around 3 grand.

So forward was a win. I let it cool down and last test was reverse and it went into reverse on the next run. So I'm feeling pretty good about my work on that transmission since it was a burnt basket case.

More to come.