he's talking about removing some weight from the governor weighs on the side
of the automatic transaxle.

that round cover on the left side, held on with a wire bail clip ..
under there ..
you pull a little assembly out, remove two weights and take about 10 to 15 %
off the end of each one, put it all back together.
for engines that are more like 6,000 or 7K rpm engines, rather than
waterboxer 5,000 rpm engines..
this makes the trans wait longer before shifting up.

you shouldn't need to do this at all.
and just think..
all these many last decades and miles your trans throttle rod has been out
of adjustment.

Scott
www.turbovans.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rocket J Squirrel" <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 4:29 PM
Subject: Re: Trans upshift

> What be that Kennedy mod of which you speak?
> --
> Rocky J Squirrel
>
>
>
> On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 19:14 -0400, Robert Mac Dowell wrote:
>
>> I just did the Kennedy mod on my governor. It actually works better than
>> before. It moved the shift point up about 800 rpms. I agree with
>> everybody
>> when they say it shifts too early. Since I put my new motor in (ford) the
>> rpm range went too 7000 rpms so when it was shifting at 4200 rpms it
>> wasn't
>> using the full potential. At least now it shifts at 5000 rpms. and more
>> into
>> the power band on the engine. When I really want to move out I shift
>> manually. The mod was worth the 1 hr's work it took to do it and I would
>> recommend it.