Check ATF levels!!! Melvin Mudgett-Price wrote: > > Help, I can't afford anymore expensive repair bills, does anyone have > any ideas about these symptoms? I've spent so much on my van it's just > so disheartening to have one expensive problem after another. I'm 1 > month out of the transmission warranty for a rebuild that cost $2,000. > > 84 Auto Wasserboxer. > > Now the problem has changed slightly. When the van's cold, it doesn't > shift from 1st to 2nd and 2nd to 3rd until the revs reach about twice > what they used to (Last week). Once the van is warmish everything seems > back to normal for 10 minutes or so then when it has reached full > operating temperature the shift from 1st to 2nd is OK but it won't shift > from 2nd to 3rd until I get to about 40 mph. This meant on the 2nd part > of my drive to work the van never got out of 2nd gear. > > Melvin Mudgett-Price |
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