The SHAME!

[Mr. Pockets]

I have modded. <SOB!>

Please forgive me!

Allow me to elaborate by first defining 'mod,' as I understand it to mean 90% of the time.

Mod: (verb) To disconnect, remove, disassemble or otherwise deactivate a device installed by the factory (most likely for a good reason).

I disconnected the resistor. Why? I dunno. I understand that it drops the line pressure. So I figured that maybe by removing it, the pressure would be increased and the car might shift better. Or at all.

My results were interesting. Disconnecting the resistor did absolutely nothing. No blinking power light, no hard shifts. The only difference I noticed was that first engaged sorta hard when I put it in 'D'.

The power light did begin to blink eventually - but only after the car had been started about five times.

It shifts in exactly the same way, meaning that while accelerating, one of the following two things happens:

1. It shifts through all the gears, but there's a brief flare between 2nd and 3rd.

2. It skips 2nd entirely, slipping until it finally decides on going directly from 1st to 3rd.