91 Maxima, VG30E, sohc, Auto

My shift is getting harder from 1st to 2nd. What can I do to cure the problem?

 

wat exactly it does? like wen it shifts from 1 to 2 gear it feels like someone hit u from the bak? do this when its about to shift to second gear take ur foot from the accelerator pedal and see if u get that hard shift if dont then move ur throttle position sensor all the way up and ur problem will be done....if not then do that first then see wat happens....

 

Try setting the switch to comfort. My car shifts hard in sport or the middle position but I like it that way. Can't really tell you anything else. It's alot easier to diagnose something that someone feels if you are the one feeling it.

 

Your tranny is probably failing this thread may interest you:

http://forums.maxima.org/3rd-generat...ss-5kohms.html

 

i wouldn't touch that with a ten foot pole. Wiking had good information (until he took his cardomain down after getting pissed off at us for the 2nd and final time), but his concepts are just totally crazy. He theorized that his swiss cheese airbox was maxing out the MAF after 4000rpm... went and came up with all this junk about how to get more power, and then when we asked him to verify that his intake was actually free-flowing enough to max out a MAF (which all of us with brains knew wouldn't be the case on any N/A VG) he discovered that it was not maxed out at all. so i don't trust any of these electrical mods he comes up with. if the tranny is already on its way out then NOTHING can save it without opening it up and fixing what's broken. screwing with the drop resistor (someone even mentioned that his resistor was so strong it might as well be 0v anyhow) is always flirting with disaster.

 

I personally wouldn't perform some of the things he was suggesting either - but it has some good information about how the transmission works. Namely that electricity is involved and maybe cleaning some connectors could help a bit, although a tranny shifting too hard sounds like one on its way out.

 

yea. too bad he nuked his cardomain.

 

People have made like 1000hp with MAFs haven't they? Maybe not the Maxima's but maybe like a Cobra MAF or something I recall. I doubt 200hp of flow would be the extent of the Maxima's.

You and me both, his mods seem outlandish and ghetto at the same time. For simple things ghetto is okay. For outlandish things, no.

 

i think the maxima MAF tops out at 300bhp give or take. z32 MAF goes higher than that.

 

It works you just have to use the upper row of page numbers. Those links work but if you use the lower row you get a broken link.

http://www.cardomain.com/ride/748507/11 works.

http://www.cardomain.com/memberpage/748507/11 doesn't work.

 

i wouldnt mess with the electrics just yet, did you do a diagnostic of the tranny using the cars system. the get to the fluid pressure checks. my car gave a hard shift with my old tranns but it was like that for years, now with the rebuild its softer but still firm. what is the shift like from 2 to 3rd is it much softer?

 

oh ok so his thing in his profile is just a bad link