[DML] Re: Automatic transmission shifting erratically...

["Harold McElraft" <hmcelraft@xxxxxxx>]

It sounds like a classic trans computer governor problem. Check to be 
sure the wires to the diagnostic plug from the computer have not 
fallen onto the exhaust.

Also, pull fuse number 13, that should cause the trans to go and stay 
in 3rd gear with the shift lever in D. Drive it some to be sure third 
gear is working. Replace the fuse. If you still get the shifting 
faults then you most likely have a computer failure.

Harold McElraft - 3354


--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "delorean_pilot" <fred50fred@...> 
wrote:
>
> My '82 automatic was in storage for 3 years due to a frozen 
caliper - 
> I could move it out of the garage and back in once a month to keep 
> things lubricated but that was it. Anyway, I just had the brakes 
> fixed day before yesterday at a shop a block away from where I 
live. 
> Driving back I noticed the transmission is acting a little funny. 
It 
> will shift at about 2000 rpm to 2nd (I suppose it's 2nd) but it 
won't 
> go into 3rd until 4000 rpm and after that it seemed to want to hang 
> up in 2nd. That was in about a mile of driving around the 
> neighborhood. 
> 
> I don't want to drive it too much if theres a problem with it. 
Maybe, 
> on the other hand, it just needs to be exercised and all will be 
> fine? What do you guys advise? 
> 
> Trans fluid is at or a little above mid line when warmed up and 
it's 
> red. The governor and solinoids were all replaced at 11k miles and 
> the transmission was rebuilt about 15 years ago - now it's got 
about 
> 15k miles on the rebuild and new gov. I guess only about 1k miles 
> were put on in the last 10 years. The inside still looks new. I 
want 
> it to drive like new as well.
> 
> Thanks, Fred
>




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