can you help with a mercury tracer

[dreamr]

My Gf's 90 merc tracer is down, and leaving her stuck with an hour and a half of the bus rather than her 30 min commute to seattle. To the point. For a WHILE SHE HAS HAD DIFFICULTY GETTING THE AUTOMATIC INTO GEAR, BUT A THUMP ON THE SHIFTER WOULD USAULLY DO IT. ......oops sorry bout the caps.... Today she was pulling out of our steep driveway, and it dropped into neutral and wouldn't shift out. I checkee her fluid. full, but more orange brown in color and smells slightly burnt. I dragged it up into the garage with some of the X's recovery gear, so i can at least give it a little better exam w/out getting wet. Whgere should I start? What might i be looking at as the problem. By the way, the flywheel has been grating for about 4 months while waitng for her to get it in. Any relation? Any help would be wonderful. Thanks Bryce

 

[Alec]

Start simple: shift lever or linkage.

 

[Billy177]

motor mounts

 

[dreamr]

Alec; thank you, that was my first thought, and hopefully my first invetigative process as soon as I get my stands back.

Billy; Motor Mounts????? anybody can you explain how this could be related?

 

[dreamr]

By the way Alec there be a couple nice lookin vehicles in your recent history. Sadly I went the other route and traded the golf in on the explorer. I miss that little pup with it's fun vr6.

 

[dreamr]

Thank you

Thanks again for your help. Her car is running nicely thanks to a nice clean batch of atf and a couple new bolts to hold that linkage cable in place. This is twice now you guys have made my life easier. I should go with the elite package just to give a little back to the site. HMMM when is payday
Thanks
Bryce

 

[Alec]

Glad we could help.

And yes the GTI VR6 is a blast