This weekend, while running around for my girlfriends baby shower, I wanted to stop and wash my TA. All the carwashes were packed and I drove around to try to find one. Didn't succeed. On my home strech I took a right turn and gave a little more gas then coustmary (I didn't stomp it) and when my 700r4 went to shift from 1st to 2nd all I got was mush from it. My power was all gone! Nothing. I felt like a cement truck with a full load! I could get it to move but the engine was not happy about it. I have no idea where the tach was sitting due to an electrical prob. with the dash. (see Electronics - Short of the Century) I only had my ears to know when to let up. It never left what I guess was first gear but I never heard or felt it change after the turn. The trany was rebuilt back in Dec of '99 and only has about 15000 miles on it after the rebuild. I was told it could be the ?torc? converter (can't spell). I really don't know. I know it felt weird ever since we got a lot of snow but I didn't really have to beat on it that much to get it moving. It just jumped between 1st and second a bit. HELP! I need this car to live. It's all I have to keep me sane!

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did the engine keep reving up but u didn't to anywhere? if so that happened to me to i got on it making a turn not to much shifted from 1st to 2nd and pressed the gas and no movement the tach just went up then after a second it caught again and it was fine. i was worried my tranny might be going to. it is possible though that the clutch was hot and not catching i have heard that.
i not really sure i would like help to

 

It would move but I was pushing 5-6000 rpm and I most likely would have not have been able to do more than 40 mph. I don't really know how it happened. I had to get it home and it was about 5 + miles. I got no power the whole way home. It was, as I said, like driving a cement truck.

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Does it have gears when you shift it manually? Will it spin the tires normally
when in reverse? If it does, the torque
converter is probably OK.

 

Are you talking just idle in gear or giving it some gas?