Thread: Tranny takes a while to shift into 2nd gear

My transmission takes about 3-5 minutes of driving before it goes any faster than 20 mph. after the five minutes it feels like a gear kicks in but cant tell if its the rest of first or if it finally shifted into second gear. It'll shift fine after that as long as I don't floor the gas pedal. Did transmission filter and oil change. checked shift solenoids and epc which were within spec. I unplugged transmission side connector and turned car on and noticed that there was no movement in D. Question is, is this normal that there is no movement in D cause all other gears had movement. the only thing I can add is that Reverse kicks in real hard. Can anybody help me?

I have a scanner. about a year ago it popped up a P1811 so i'm not sure if my scanner reads tranny codes but if it doesnt where can i get them checked?

After thinking of what else it could be, I remembered that I never opened the old transmission filter when I had changed it 6 months before. I looked all over my yard when I finally found it under a tree. Here's some pictures I took of it. I'm no tranny wiz but that looks like clutch material too me. Can anybody confirm this?

now it makes sense to me when people say water will make the clutch material come right off if the water gets on the clutch discs. Long story short. I was coming home from a party 3 years ago and took a road I wasnt familiar with cause I dropped off two girls at their house. I dropped them off and kept going, up ahead was a 90 degree gravel curve. I braked and turned the wheel but my car kept sliding and ended up falling in an irrigation cannal. car sunk under water. well except for the trunk which had my system. thankfully, Ever since then the 1-2 shift kept taking longer and longer. I been trying to educate myself by dissarming a 4L60E so I can atleast learn how to assemble the clutch packs so I can rebuild mine myself. I know its different since the sprocket and everything but its all general; clutch packs, bands, snap rings.