Christy, are you SURE you have a VH? Who told you this? That's an antiquated transit tranny, 2 speeds. I have a hard time believing someone would shoehorn one of those relics in your conversion and then sell it to you as a V730. The ad for your bus states as such: http://www.gmbusguy.com/1966pd4107.htmTake a pic of your tranny and post it here, please, so we can help you get to the bottom of this.Brian Brown4108-216
I manually shift to 2nd (at about 45), then when it slows more and the trans slips into torque converter (can feel it) I can then pull it down to 1st where it revvs up towards the governor. When it is wound out pretty good, I just slowly pull up on the go pedal about an inch and you can feel it "bump" into torque converter again.
Besides, the VS is a very user friendly transmission and can be repaired by most transmission shops and is pretty much bullet proof. The V730 is a bit more complicated and not nearly as forgiving.Parts for VS trans. are still available off the shelf and not that hard to find. Besides, there are lots of VS transmissions laying around for low prices.
I will look at the Transmission agan, but the plate I was reading was on the side and it looked original. We have three solenoids on it, I do know that. I will spend more time on it today & report back. Christy