myself? Orshould I just get a new (rebuilt) one and turn the old one in as a core? Will I have trouble finding the parts to get this fixed by tomorrow? I'm inthe San Francisco bay area (East Bay).I would do NOTHING right now. Drive it again for awhile and see if it ever does it again. There's a good chance that it won't, or that it only does it on longhot road trips.My 73 AT did this to me on a trip a few years ago and I thought I'd have to work it over. I still haven't touched it and it asn't happened since....
This (very common) issue is not, I believe, caused by the solenoid. I had the same problem on Bugs and the real cause was that typical voltage loss issue between ignition switch and solenoid. Adding a simple relay in that circuit fixed it.
It seems the solenoid just has a lot more resistance when it gets hot down there.
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