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Hey everyone, I just joined today and was wondering if yall had any advice for me about what I should get done. My transmision. Is a little hard to shift from reverse to drive.It gets stuff going from neutral to reverse or neutral to drive.
Yea i checked it before i bought it. Drove it around for about 30 mins. It may be time for a tranny fluid change. And i heard sometimes you may have to tighten the bolts in the tranny pan to give the tranny enough pressure for fluid shifts. Also there is a moderately loud creak when i let of the breaks every time. Thinking it may be a ball joint, or tie rods
It does get stuck, its not like it wont move at all. I just have to tugg it 2 or 3 time and it goes into gear. All the other gears give me o problem though. Just going across neutral to park or to drive is what's giving me a hassle
Get a low profile floor jack, and four jack stands.
Maybe a few different strengths reading glasses, because you’re gonna be doing a lot of work with the subject right in your face. I can’t work on what I can’t see.
One thing to check is something that happened with my '92 Firebird - there is a shift interlock cable that runs from the shifter to the ignition switch - not the ignition lock cylinder where you stick the key, but the ignition switch itself lower down on the steering column. On mine, the cable was bad (sticking) and the steel pin that prevents the movement of the shifter when the ignition key was rotated wasn't retracting, with the end result that I couldn't move the shifter. I could overpower it and it didn't do it all the time, but it was scary when it did it since I could move the car. You can either replace the cable with a known good one or a NOS one, but you'll have to remove the carpet on the driver's side and the console. Or you can do the chesesy thing like me and remove the plastic housing from the ignition seitch, drill a hole, remove the pin, and then reattach. Just be careful if you go the cheesy route, as you can then put the car in gear even with the key out and the steering wheel locked.
If it's actually transmission-related, then I'd do a thorough service on the transmission with a new AC Delco filter, gasket and fluid, fill to the correct level (go by yourPontiac/Chevrolet service manual for a ballpark figure for fluid change capacity and then top up from there; do not overfill) and then make the proper adjustments to the TV cable and go for a test drive. If it's still doing it, then you'll have to take it to a transmission pro, someone versed in the GM 700R4/4L60 tranny.
