Date:         Sat, 18 Sep 1999 20:13:32 -0500
Reply-To:     Marshall Ruskin <mruskin@PANGEA.CA>
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From:         Marshall Ruskin <mruskin@PANGEA.CA>
Subject:      Low power 60 sec after start - a trannie issue?
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Hi Volks:

Manny of you may remember my problems with extremely low power, starting
about sixty seconds after starting, ending some ten min later - and never
occurring when the engine was full lot.

Today, it occurred to me that perhaps the AT is not downshifting into 1st,
when car is cool.

That would explain why I have lots of power on start, but why so often my
first pull away AFTER being at speed is so sluggish. (I start off in 1st
gear, and move up the gears, but perhaps the trannie doesn't shift back down
again.)

Unfortunately, the darn thing didn't do it today, so I couldn't manually
test it by moving into first manually.

2 questions: If my diagnosis is correct - what can I do to further pin down
the problem with the trannie?

Is this a common thing for AT's?

Thanks in Advance

Marshall Ruskin
84 Westy "Iron Igloo"
Founding Member of "Vanagon's Anonymous"