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- From: donald.wendel@yob.sccsi.com (Donald Wendel)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: transmission quirk
- Message-ID: <6873.196.uupcb@yob.sccsi.com>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 23:35:00 GMT
- Distribution: world
- Organization: Ye Olde Bailey BBS - Houston, TX - 713-520-1569
- Reply-To: donald.wendel@yob.sccsi.com (Donald Wendel)
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- >>>Subject: transmission quirk >>>Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 21:36:40 GMT
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- JPM>>>I own a 1988 Olds 98 Regency Brougham. It has I believe a 4 speed automat
- >>>transmission.(There are two "drive" positions, the overdrive having a cir
- >>>around the "D". There seems to be a problem when driving the car at a ste
- >>>speed on level ground around 50 mph, and when a gradual incline approache
- >>>in the road. The transmission feels like it attempts to downshift to 3rd,
- >>>as it does, it does so indecisively, hicupping several times between 4th
- >>>3rd before it settles into 3rd. The jolting can be avoided by either driv
- >>>the car in "D" instead of "circle D", or pressing on the accelerator more
- >>>strongly at the onset of a hill.
- >>> My mechanic adjusted a "torque converter switch", but this did not
- >>>help. He referred me to a tranmission specialist. The tranmission specia
- >>>wants to connect the car to a diagnostic computer for $40 to find the pro
- >>>I suspect its something simple, like a vaccum line or modulator valve.
- >>> Can anyone out there give me some advice as to what may be the problem?
- >>>I would really appreciate some tips. Please send email as I don't regular
- >>>read this newsgroup.
- >>> Thanks
- >>> Jeff Manosh
- You mechanic told you correctly. It most likely IS the torqueconverter
- lockup that you feel. It would be worth the $40 to make sure of
- EXACTLY what you need. It could be the switch that your guy "adjusted".
- It could be the computer PROM itself, or it could actually be a more
- serious internall trans problem.
- Don
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