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Re: 69 automatic(most of the time..)


On Fri, 11 Jul 1997, Melissa & Jim wrote:

> 
> Yeah, I admit that this was a long shot, but here's what I was 
> thinking:  When you shift the car into the various gears, ATF gets 
> pumped down various passages and into various chambers where it 
> pushes various pistons into different configurations.  When you AT 
> gets low on ATF it can run out of oil before the required tasks are 
> done.

Ah hah!! I see what you were thinking now....excellent idea!:)
<snipple>
> 
> Didn't sound like a linkage problem to me because under both 
> conditions the linkage was coming into D from the same direction.  If 
> the symptom was that the only way to get D to work was to go to 2 
> then D then I would be right with you on the linkage. 

True...but.

He mentions it only happens occasionally, right? Not every time he does 
this shift...

Makes me think of a loose mount or something that sometimes is out of 
whack, if you know what i'm getting at..(i have a linage problem with my 
p'up that will occasionally go into 1st, or reverse, or 3rd, all in the 
1st gear possition...(turns out to be some missing bushings on the relay 
bracket...hmm..)

I'm thinking something similar in the cable run for the linkage..  (I 
cant refer to my Bentley for more info, cause its down in the Bus, which 
is on the other side of the garden, which is in a DARK yard, in the 
middle of the woods..........and i plain dont feel like going out there...;')

When i can i'll investigate this somemore...


.....david

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