Hello Board,
I've asked this board several questions in regards to my 200-r4 for my 71 olds.
With Pride I say that I finally broke down and took it to someone that answers this board, the trans still runs great several months later of full throtle shifts at every time I stop the car and the road is dry. I can't wait until I bring it back to get the torque convertor and have fourth gear freshened up. But this isn't the forum to talk business.
I have an 83 Cadillac with a 4.6L. Yuck, I know. But it runs great. I blew reverse so I took a spare trans I had lying around out of my buddies mid 80's grand-prix and had the trans shop rebuild it. We thought it worked but found out the hard way that it only had first and second gear.
They rebuilt it and put it in with a new torque converter. I couldn't tell you if they replaced anything or just freshened it up.
The problem I'm experiencing is after driving the car for about 15 minutes to a half an hour it starts to act up.
If it is updhifting it feels like the torque converter comes in to early and the shifts aren't smooth.
When it downshifts it feels like the torque converter isn't releasing and you can feel the engine being lugged until you almost come to a stop and it opens up. It never gets to the point where the engine wants to stall.
I didn't have time Sunday to take a drive with my friends snap on computer connnected to see if the computer was causing the lock up to come in early or stay engaged. But we were able to test to see if the brake switch was operating. All is good.
I figured I'd try an experiment. I waited until it started acting up. then pulled over and left the car running. I went below the car and pulled the electrical connector. This did not solve the problem. It was still acting exactly the same with the connector in.
I tried resetting the throttle position cable. I even brought the cable in one and out one click. Nothing seemed to make a difference.
I'm lost. The only thing I can think of is the safety switch in the trans if the fluid gets to hot is broken. But does this work the fluid regardless of any electricity going to the trans?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I really don't want to take this back to the trans shop that fixed it. I would rather pay again and have the guy that did my cutlass redue this one to.
Thanks in advance. Brian
I've asked this board several questions in regards to my 200-r4 for my 71 olds.
With Pride I say that I finally broke down and took it to someone that answers this board, the trans still runs great several months later of full throtle shifts at every time I stop the car and the road is dry. I can't wait until I bring it back to get the torque convertor and have fourth gear freshened up. But this isn't the forum to talk business.
I have an 83 Cadillac with a 4.6L. Yuck, I know. But it runs great. I blew reverse so I took a spare trans I had lying around out of my buddies mid 80's grand-prix and had the trans shop rebuild it. We thought it worked but found out the hard way that it only had first and second gear.
They rebuilt it and put it in with a new torque converter. I couldn't tell you if they replaced anything or just freshened it up.
The problem I'm experiencing is after driving the car for about 15 minutes to a half an hour it starts to act up.
If it is updhifting it feels like the torque converter comes in to early and the shifts aren't smooth.
When it downshifts it feels like the torque converter isn't releasing and you can feel the engine being lugged until you almost come to a stop and it opens up. It never gets to the point where the engine wants to stall.
I didn't have time Sunday to take a drive with my friends snap on computer connnected to see if the computer was causing the lock up to come in early or stay engaged. But we were able to test to see if the brake switch was operating. All is good.
I figured I'd try an experiment. I waited until it started acting up. then pulled over and left the car running. I went below the car and pulled the electrical connector. This did not solve the problem. It was still acting exactly the same with the connector in.
I tried resetting the throttle position cable. I even brought the cable in one and out one click. Nothing seemed to make a difference.
I'm lost. The only thing I can think of is the safety switch in the trans if the fluid gets to hot is broken. But does this work the fluid regardless of any electricity going to the trans?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I really don't want to take this back to the trans shop that fixed it. I would rather pay again and have the guy that did my cutlass redue this one to.
Thanks in advance. Brian
