727 valve body disaster!

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firetech

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Doing a 1973 727 overhaul like the one in the excellent write up on this forum. You seem to be well versed in the 727. Long story short, while the valve body was apart, the table was hit by a fork lift! I reorganised all the parts and in the end I am stuck on 3 very similar springs, one is painted light blue and according to the write up on here it is probably for the throttle valve. The other two are almost the same lenghth but one is a little heavier/stiffer. One old timer told me the stiffer one goes on the converter control valve and the other is for the shuttle valve, a valve body I saw today had the stiffer one in the shuttle valve and the converter spring was blue!! Can you shed any light on this?
 
Thanks for the reply, I did see that image when I was searching around. It seems to support the guy I spoke with at fireball performance automatics. He said the spring on the converter valve was slightly heavier than the one in the shuttle valve. The local trans shop had a valve body (a few years newer) that had them reversed. Even he said that if his valve body had been messed with before, it would be overhauled and reassembled as delivered to him. The only time he would question the placement of the springs is if there ended up being an identifiable valvebody issue. He said there is no real definitive resource to identify spring placement other than finding an identical original valvebody to compare it to. I was just hoping someone has dealt with this before and could save me some leg work.
 
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