merc2dogs
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Morning all,
This afternoon my tranny started acting up on me, drove over to my Mom's house, and it kicked into gear when I let off the gas to turn, and then to accelerate (very light kick, as though it were dropping all the way out of gear for a second) when I arrived I checked the fluid, which was a touch low, not enough to affect anything though, just enough to notice it was. when I left to go back home, it ran fine for a block or so then kicked out of gear and wouldn't move, checked fluid again, still good, everything fine, clean clear bright fluid, no burned look or smell to it at all, looks the same as it does coming out of the jug.
dinked around with it a little bit on the side of the road, couldn't find anything wrong, had it towed home, then while pushing it into the garage, I started it up for steering, hit drive instead of nuetral, and it didn't seem to have any trouble moving at all, it's just sluggish when engaging gears, shift into gear, wait a short bit and it will go into gear and seem fine. all gears work if you wait a second
prior to this, the only trouble I've had has been slight hesitation when going into reverse, and sluggish shifting out of 1st when it's cold, won't shift easily unless you back off the throttle, then it'll shift up, after you 've driven a couple blocks it's fine with no trouble at any other time.
at present it's my only driver, and I'm driving 180+ miles a day for work, (Gr michigan to pentwater, realy sucks) and can't afford to get stuck on the side of the road with all my tools.
it has me stumped because the fluid is fine, looks as good as it is in the jug, but, When it kicked out of gear, it was running great, and then just felt like I'd shifted into nuetral, no booms, clunks or anything.
any ideas?
merc.
This afternoon my tranny started acting up on me, drove over to my Mom's house, and it kicked into gear when I let off the gas to turn, and then to accelerate (very light kick, as though it were dropping all the way out of gear for a second) when I arrived I checked the fluid, which was a touch low, not enough to affect anything though, just enough to notice it was. when I left to go back home, it ran fine for a block or so then kicked out of gear and wouldn't move, checked fluid again, still good, everything fine, clean clear bright fluid, no burned look or smell to it at all, looks the same as it does coming out of the jug.
dinked around with it a little bit on the side of the road, couldn't find anything wrong, had it towed home, then while pushing it into the garage, I started it up for steering, hit drive instead of nuetral, and it didn't seem to have any trouble moving at all, it's just sluggish when engaging gears, shift into gear, wait a short bit and it will go into gear and seem fine. all gears work if you wait a second
prior to this, the only trouble I've had has been slight hesitation when going into reverse, and sluggish shifting out of 1st when it's cold, won't shift easily unless you back off the throttle, then it'll shift up, after you 've driven a couple blocks it's fine with no trouble at any other time.
at present it's my only driver, and I'm driving 180+ miles a day for work, (Gr michigan to pentwater, realy sucks) and can't afford to get stuck on the side of the road with all my tools.
it has me stumped because the fluid is fine, looks as good as it is in the jug, but, When it kicked out of gear, it was running great, and then just felt like I'd shifted into nuetral, no booms, clunks or anything.
any ideas?
merc.
