RE: [DML] First Outing With My DeLorean-STRANDED

["PJ Grady" <rob@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Roland,

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but that is typical of an internal drum
failure in an automatic which would mean rebuild or replace the tranny. I
hope I'm wrong but if not don't "shoot the messenger" as I'm just answering
your question :). BTW if you are that concerned about overheating it you may
want to consider (after it's fixed) one of our aluminum A.T cooler heat
exchangers which clamps around your cooler and drops your automatics
operating temperature by about 20 degrees. In theory you double the life of
your trans with every 20 degree drop in operating temperature. Call us for
details if you're interested as it's not on our website yet.

Rob Grady 

-----Original Message-----
From: Roland Smith [mailto:roland@xxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 8:52 AM
To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [DML] First Outing With My DeLorean-STRANDED

I have owned my DeLorean since early February and it has been in for repairs
and improvements almost the whole time.

Yesterday, Sunday, my wife and I set out early in it to go to Half Moon Bay
to join the Northern California DeLorean Motor Club at a Dream Machines car
show.

Moving in a long line of cars to the entrance, there were delays where we
would be dead stopped and then have car length forward movement.  In order
to save the automatic transmission overheating , I would put the selector in
N when stopped and then D to move forward when the line moved.

When we got to the front and I was the next to move, I moved the selector to
D an felt a slight engagement effect as it slipped into gear and then
nothing.  It would not function in any gear and the engine would rev easily
as if it was in neutral.

What could have happened?



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