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Maintenance & Repair Transmission Traumas?
2411 messages, Last post on Dec 04, 2009 at 1:19 PM
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| Escort SE--transmission pump or pressure switch? Clunks into 1sr gear & then fine after that. 2002 | |
| When my van is cold the automatic transmission shifts perfect. When it warms up, the shifting is sudden. In other words, when shifting from 1st to 2nd it hits hards with a big thud. Going from 2nd to 3rd gear it hardly noticable. Any ideas. I was also wondering if it could be the transfer case (all wheel drive). Thanks, Chris | |
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Replying to: Mr_Shiftright (Jun 03, 2006 7:42 am)
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Replying to: dsingle (Sep 11, 2006 8:04 am) 100K is a bit on the short end for a transmission failure but it's within the range of a transmission's normal life span. |
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Mr. Shiftright suggested someone here might know about this. My 95 T-bird (Normally aspirated V8) has just over 100K miles, and I've only owned it 9 mos. Lovely car, but it has started to down shift while cruising down the hiway. It immediately shifts back to 4th. It has even done this under trailing throttle at 50mph. My mech. found "codes" on the speed sensor, and the mass airflow sensor and replaced them to no avail. This last time, found fluid in a wire harness inside the tranny and replaced that and two solinoides while he was there. No change. I've purchased a Chilton and Haynes manual for the car but don't have them yet. Any ideas??? Thanks.
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A year ago my 92 Plymouth Acclaim (aka Dodge Spirit) was giving me transmission trouble - sometimes it just wouldn't shift on up into high. Other times it shifted right on through the gears the way it should. I was going to get the fluid and filter changed and see what that accomplished, but I had the opportunity to start driving my mom's Toyota, so I fairly stupidly just let the Acclaim sit in the driveway for a year. Now I have a knowledgeable possible purchaser, who has replaced the filter and the fluid. The shifting problem is still there, though he hasn't given it very much of a trial yet. The really perplexing and worrisome aspect is that he discovered in the bottom of the fluid a glob of broken-up pieces of magnetic metal, as if there had been about a 1-inch diameter magnet in the system, and somehow it got smashed. Does anybody know if there's SUPPOSED to be a magnet in the transmission -- maybe to vacuum up stray metal particles? And how could such a thing have gotten into the works and gotten crunched, and still leave the engine running at all? I know nothing of these matters, but if anybody has any ideas, Brett (my potential purchaser) may want to discuss it with you. Thanks Abigail
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| The car recently had a new motor (rebuilt) installed and shortly after started to make a clunk sound when shifting into drive or reverse. It also stopped going into higher gears, only 1st. I should also say that when I was under the car I could move the engine more than I think it should move could there be motor or transmission mount problems? and could this affect the transmission in this way. also what the heck does the transmission control module do? | |
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I have a 1992 Chevy Van G-30 85,000.Automatic transmission. The tranny was rebuilt about a liitle more than a year ago. Today I was driving noticed my tranny would shift to 1st then 2nd but not into any other higher gear. then after about a block of driving I noticed my speedometer was not woking either, nothing it wouldn't even move. I was told that i needed a new speed sensor from my buddy, and i went and got one from bennet auto, but I can't locate it on the tranny. Where is this speed sensor located and is this the problem? I looked on my tranny and there are 3 plug like things that clip into the tranny, one of them is round with about 7-10 wires going into it and the other two are smaller with 2 wires going into it. But the sensor they sold me at bennet doesnot look like either, and i even double checked with the dealer and it is the right part, but I cant seem to locate it? Someone please help me if you can. Thanks in advance. |
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Hi there. I have a Suzuki Esteem Wagon, 1999, 1.6L engine, with a manual gearbox, owned from new, with the grand total of 102,000 kms on it. Here's a bit of the tranny history: • April 2003, 55201kms, had the transmission fluid changed. • 4 days later, I drove to Jasper from Edmonton, and just as I got there the transmission failed totally (apparently a known but not recalled problem). • June 2004, 69,101 kms), with a severe rattle at front left, the dealer found (and fixed) a worn input bearing in the transmission. • June 2005, 84,534 kms, had to get a new clutch. Now, at 102,000 kms, the gearbox has some sort of "major problem between first and third gears", and will likely cost $1,600 to fix. My question? Does anyone have any comments about this level of failure? Do clutches typically go at 85000 kms? I've driven almost nothing but standards for 35 years, have never had a gearbox fail in any way, on any car, and have only had to replace one clutch apart from this one. Any comments would be much apreciated. I am trying to see if I can get some goodwill on this out of Suzuki, but the prospects don't look too good so far... Nigel |
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