Transmissions and DrivetrainNeed help with your trans? Problems with your axle?
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I have an '89 fibird formula with a 350 tuned port motor and a stock 700 r4 does anybody know how or what I have do to disconnect the lockup feature on my torque converter. I've been having issues where the car dies from idle when shifted into gear and dies on deceleration when coming to a stop if left in gear. If I pop it into nuetral it stays running,and I have have to feather the throttle before shifting back into gear or it dies. Can anybody help??
I have the same problem. It's mechanical. You have to change the torque converter. It's locked up. My car's at my buddy's shop, and he checked the solenoid, and the oil pump. They are working fine. I have to get a new converter.
If your solenoid was faulty the car wouldn't change gears. I was told that by another transmission guy.
Hope this helps!
its a four wire plug above the shifter cable on the left side of the transmission just unplug it.and the transmission will shift with the lockup unpluged.
i have the same issue. i swaped trannys and now it dies when i put it in any gear wheither i give it gas or not. its as if the coil loses power. ive also tried it without the lock up wire plug and it does the same thing. any ideas?
Last edited by kylemeadus; 09-05-2010 at 06:46 PM.
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"If your solenoid was faulty the car wouldn't change gears." This is wrong. The transmission will still shift, and probably shift very hard. Get another torque converter, as the clutch in it has locked itself up. DO NOT try and feather the throttle to get it to move. YOU WILL ruin the forward clutch and/or the low reverse clutch in short order. Then the transmission will have to be removed to fix this.
with the car on jack stands it souldnd matter if the tourque converter was locked up or not, no? the car souldnt die i would think. it even dies when i shift to nutrual. im lost
Last edited by kylemeadus; 09-09-2010 at 03:29 PM.
i'm having the same exact problem!!!! my cars driveable but i do have to be mindful of my deceleration as well as sitting at an idle while in drive, and when i look under my car the TC is always spinning or engaged i noticed after i did the swap about a month or 2 ago when the car was still on jackstnds the tires would spin while the car was in nuetral i thought it was weird but i didnt care i got my care back. but now it wants to stall a lot when im in D at idle i have my old TC so i guess im gonna put that in and see if it fixes the problem
