Thank you all for your suggestions about my auto trans governor. What I'm getting is that it probably isn't the part, so I'll have some of that checked out as soon as I can. (My old part HAD to have been bad though, since now it usually shifts smoothly whereas before it only barely shifted into second.) I also want to apologize to the people at DMC Houston...sorry if I got a little upset in e-mail but I hope you can forgive my ignorance about this part and how it works. (I probably shouldn't have written an e-mail right after I got back from having the car not shift properly.) So I hope we're ok on that. :) Anyway thank you all again for your help and we'll see what I can do. Money is tight right now so probably not much. :/ Richard