Date:         Thu, 28 Jun 2007 12:44:38 -0400
Reply-To:     Christopher Gronski <gronski@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Christopher Gronski <gronski@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Shifting when hot
Comments: To: Kim Brennan <kimbrennan@mac.com>
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Hey Kim between you and I we have a normal van. Mine won't shift worth
a darn until she gets hot (or in this heat wave we are having) if
she's cold I get shifting trouble. Do two wrongs make a right?

Chris

On 6/27/07, Kim Brennan <kimbrennan@mac.com> wrote:
> My westy continues to have a couple of annoyances. One of them is
> (once again) a shifting problem. When the engine (whole vehicle) is
> cold, I have no problem shifting in to first or reverse. However as
> the temperatures climb (mid 30's Centigrade here in southern Ontario)
> it become nigh on impossible to get it into first or reverse when the
> engine is hot. This is especially bad in traffic when I've been
> running the AC.
>
> Let the engine cool down some and I can get it into first again.
>
> I'm puzzled by this temperature related shifting problem. I just
> don't know what to make of it. When the transmission was pulled last
> summer the rubber mounts all seemed fine.
>