th350 governor adjustment

So, I need to adjust the shift points on my th350. I already installed an adjustable modulator, and adjusted it all the way, but I still think it's getting into 2nd and 3rd too early. So, my understanding is that I need to change the weights and/or springs on the governor. There are $50 kits for this but my understanding is that less weight = later shifts, so is there any reason I can't just take a die grinder or a drill and lighten the weights that are already in there and save $50?

What do the stiffer/looser springs change? what am I missing here?

 

If you buy a governor gear kit it will have new "nails" to help you put it back together after you're done with your grinding.

 

so don't be cheap and just buy the kit eh?

 

The kit I'm talking about is a few bucks, it does not have weights or springs, just a new gear, gear pin, and the "nails" which hold the weights on. You have to destroy the old "nails" to take it apart, having new ones is handy.

 

use a tack, and shife it manual.

 

the heaver the weights and the stronger the springs the faster it shifts,
usually the springs are way to long and kinda hard to compress and get in, so you can cut a couple coils off, also yea you can grind the weights, just clip the nails and take em off weigh them, and take some off, evenly so,
the nails are just nails, nothing special, ace hardware has em..
or I could send yu some light springs.

 

I'm remembering having B&M kits for the springs in the modulator. Lighter=later shifts. I don't think you'd have to mess with the weights, as I never did, and I don't remember any h***le changing the springs as they were external...

 

Not to drag up an old post, but it's similar... I keep hearing about changing weights but the videos that I'm finding on Youtube that show how to do this leave a lot out of the procedure. Is it only one weight that gets changed total, or do you change one weight on each side of the governor, meaning 2 total?
Any of you guys recall the size nail to get from Ace? I think my B&M kit has little rods with ends, but I'd be worried about the keeper coming loose. The video I watched used a nail and just bent it down and trimmed the excess, I just couldn't understand what he was saying. Mine is a 700R4.

Thanks.