Greetings from joshua tree, California!

[kelly68]

Greetings, glad to have finally joined this  group. I have a 1968 Austin America with an automatic. It shifts through the gears fine in manual, but in auto, seems just be in second gear from a stop and stays there. The governor was disconnected when I got the car. I hooked it back up, set up as the manual said, and still doesn´t shift. I drive it on errands manually, for now, but want to eventually make it right. I've got a good manual and a few successful automatic rebuilds in my past, but never one of these.
Thanks in advance for any help in the future on procedures or parts sources!
Kelly

[notamini]

Are you saying you have never done an AP automatic? Sounds to me like it was apart and, as in many attempted rebuilds, the internal governor linkage is backwards.

[jockduck]

Yes its possible to put the little internal arm on the wrong side of the governor linkage, I also experienced an auto box stuck in 1st but drove fine in manual, I found the governor stuck on its shaft(rust), I did pull the engine/box unit and by working the governor back and forth with a screwdriver through the small 2 bolt linkage hole, still working 30 years later. I did post some photos on this site some years ago showing the correct internal position of the governor link.
Jock