For anyone who might care or be curious: if your Gen III GXE transmission is not alreacy burnt and you want it to shift the way it should have from the factory, there is a ray of (cheap) hope:

http://txchange.com/sk.htm

is where you can find a valve body upgrade kit for $35 plus shipping:

Corrects/Prevents/Reduces:
- falls out of gear at a stop when hot
- delayed forward engagement,
- no 3rd after a 3-2 or 4-2 kickdown,
- 4-3 or 4-2 kickdown runaway,
- 3-4 clutch burnup,
- direct clutch inner seal leak,
- soft 1-2 and 2-3 shift.
- High-Temp/Low Shrink rings assure quality shifts and extend durability

It was too late for mine: the brake band friction material looked like a moon rock AFTER being toasted in the oven. I am currently in the last stages of fitting a master rebuild kit into it, along with the kit mentioned above.

It is actually threatening to go back together, which should in itself be pretty interesting.

 

anyone tried this?

 

I have the transgo shift kit in my RE4F04A (VE) tranny. I installed it like 4 years ago, all I can say is that it's EXCELLENT. First and second gear are nice and fast, none of them slam. The tranny is BETTER THAN NEW even now, 4 years later. I also installed a tranny cooler and I only use syn atf.

I'm sure you vg people can also benifit from it.

Most people don't change their tranny fluid often enough, so I'm sorry to say that most of the people who have a tranny failure deserve it .

Certain components cannot be installed unless the tranny is out of the car, so I simply did not install them, but they were not anything critial to the operation of the valve body portion of the upgrade.

 

did the entire deal...

the blue and black rings are the parts that need to be installed with metal rings. (the rings in the pic are not set up correctly).


then add the spring and check ball in the VB.

impressions...pretty much what eric said. i mean it's better..but it's not like u slapped in a NHRA drag tranny but it's definitely better. if your tranny is dying this won't do jack for you. if you're doing a rebuild have the tranny guy use this kit.

 

i just did a rebuild, and am still experiencing these problems! Does anyone think that this kit would help? I am planning on taking the car back to the shop soon, so maybe they could install this as well. let me know guys thanks.

 

if they already did the build...they might want more $ to add this kit on...UNLESS there was a huge problem w/ the build and they have to tear it down again.

 

well, i have a warranty on the rebuild, so for them to fix it again wouldnt cost me anything. If they want a couple of extra $$ that isn't a problem. but i really wanna know if it will stop my shifting problems.

 

no it won't...if the car doesn't shift properly then this won't fix it. if it shifts fine and you feel that it's a tad on the slow side or something..then yeah this will improve shift speed. don't think it's some miracle fix that it'll make your tranny shift like new. there's a problem w/ the tranny..have the shop fix it.

 

approx how much was the transgo kit (not installation) just for the kit.I didnt know they offered one,My next door neighbour is a factoy transmission specialist so he woudl instlal it for me pretty darn cheap.

BJ white

 

not sure what they are going for now...i think it was under $50...try clicking on the link up top.

 

sorry for my stupidity,I thoguh he was tlaking about a different kit.he lists the price and everything right there.... been a long day

BJ White

 

can you use this with a third generation SE maxima? Automatic?

 

CLICK ON THE LINK IN THE FIRST POST.

VG - RE4FO2A
VE - RE4FO4A?

 

People....

CLICK ON THE LINK

 

VG = RE4F02A
VE = RE4F04V

 

I understand it as follows: Nissan used the RE4F02A with VGs and the RE4F04A with VEs and VQs. Is this right?

I've never heard of some of the problems that this guy's talking about...at least in the 4th gen, auto trannies are famous for "extra firm" 1-2 shifts especially when cold.

 

The VQ 4th gen tranny is RE4F04A since it's almost the same exact tranny as the VE, just lacking the VLSD. The VQ 4th gen did have the RE4F04V tranny offered, but only in i30s and some Canadian models.

 

so if one was going to buy a reprograming kit from transgo for the re4f04v trans could he use the re4f04a kit or are the a and v transmissions different designs? because it seems to me that the A means that it is an open diff and the V means that it is an vlsd so is that the only differance or not?

 

Awsome thanks for the tread, i was looking a shift kit.

 

These came up in a thread a while back.

I've got a question: Are these shift kits DIY? I noticed on their website they advertise the GM and Ford kits as DIY but the imports aren't in that section.

Has anybody put one of these on themselves?

 

DIY?? unless you're confortable with pulling the valve body of the tranny then i would say no it's not really a DIY.

the kit is really in depth so unless you know what you're doing i would wait until it's rebuild time or time for a tranny swap to have someone put this in.

 

wait are shift kits mods for manual as well

 

yes it's called going to a gym and making your right arm stronger and quicker..

 

Hi Dan...I have a 1989 automatic with the RE4F02A transmission....It has 150k miles and just rebuilt with the shift kit....The rebuilder said never again, he/we waited for parts and i thought it was never gonna be back on the road again...This was my dads car, bought new and it means a lot to me...I was told the RE4F04A is a direct replacement...I looked on the internet and it seems parts are more accesable than the 02A...if i can score a nice RE4F04A is it gonna replace the 02A? i appreciate your input, thanks, Jeff

 

Don't know the answer myself but Dan unfortunately passed away last year. Someone else may know though. Have you considered 5spd swapping or would that be a no go?