Re: [DML] Automatic

[Marc Levy <malevy_nj@xxxxxxxxx>]

Before your mechanic tears the transmission apart,
test the electronic shift control.  They are a common
failure on the Automatic cars.

As far as cost goes, if you handy with a soldering
iron you can probably fix it yourself.  Otherwise,
some of the vendors have a rebuild service where they
also improve the design a bit to prevent future
problems.

--- mydmc5898 <mydmc5898@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Well I was driving my DMC home from an oil change,
> and well all of a 
> suddent he car began to switch gears, its an 81
> automatic. Anyway I 
> called AAA and back to the garage it went. Well I
> found out that a 
> pully froze up and my mechanic also informed me that
> my Transmission 
> was slipping. Now I have records from 1997 showing
> that the trans 
> has been rebulit. I understand that if jumping the
> car to many times 
> it can destroy the computer, and since March of 2003
> it has been 
> jumped at least five times for one reason or
> another. Well my fisrt 
> question is this, I'm not to keen on mechanical
> terms so when the 
> trans slips I know it to be with changing gears, but
> what could 
> cause this and how bad is it $$$ wise?
> 
> Thanks,
> Darryl
> 5898



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