I have all oil leaks stopped, new fluids everywhere. This is 88 n/a with over 125,000 miles. When I first got the car running the auto tranny slipped. I thought it would get better as I drove it. This car was parked for over 2 years. And the tranny has gotton better, had it flushed and filled last weekend. Well I put a quart of Trans-X in last night and will give about a week before I get serious about taking to a shop. What would make a auto tranny slip, is the converter? It only slips when I am stopped at a light. When ease into the throttle, you can feel it catch and you can go on. Is this serious?



Thanks for the help.



jw

 

could be the converter? clogged filter? maybe there isnt enough fluid in it? are the auto trannys like a drain and fill only or do they have a tranny fluid pan, gasket, filter etc. ? does it shift funny when you go around a corner?

 

auto trannies are more complex than the enitre rest of the car, it could be a bunch of things making it slip



mike

 

Too much in too small of a space. That's why I've never owned anything but 5-speeds. :bigthumg:

 

Are you sure its not right? If the tranny didnt slip at the light you either couldnt stop or the car would stall.

 

there are clutches in a automatic transmission that go bad, there are solenoids

that go bad, valve bodies can go bad when something else goes bad and causes

metal particles to be circulated thru the transmission. Usually heat and lack of fluid

changes causes tranny problems, the converter is part of a rebuild, but its pretty much

never the sole cause of a tranny problem.



My advice would have been not to change the fluid, but its too late for that.

Its only a matter of time before the slip gets worse, you can try taking your

chances but if it starts slipping bad enough and you try to get it home and run it

at constant high RPMs, you can run into other problems.

 

my auto tranny on my '86 NA went out, started slipping between 1st and 2nd. That cost $1500 for the rebuild (ouch!). What started it? who knows, but i do know that my stick in my '87 turbo is much easier to deal with.



just the other day, my car stalled out. why? clutch fluid leaked out cuzi i got a hole in my slave cylinder. how much for the part? $40 and i can do it myself. I dig the stick...

 

Yes, it slips going around a corner, but not all the time. And it is still getting better, now I can stop and it will stay engaged. It used to feel like it slipped out of gear, and the rpms would go up. It does still slip accelerating and around corners, but it seems to get better as it warms up. I know the car was abused by the previous owner, we will just have to wait and see.

 

If it slips whe you got to take off from a stop then its most likely the old torwue converter init.I had a friend whos car did that before.It was like having a stall converter but not. :bigthumg:

 

mine is all messed up. my auto that is. the guy from rx7world.com said that he rebuilds them and guarantees them for like $850. not including shipping. that would be like 60-100