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Old Mar 19, 2012 | 10:37 PM
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How bad did I hurt my tranny?

Today going to the hospital because my grandma had a stroke my car decide to start vapor locking, well it died on me in the middle of an intersection causing me to painic, when I put my car into neutral to try to restart it I got nothing so I ended up shoving my car into park before I thought about it while I was going. About 40, as soon as I heard the grinding I pulled it back into drive toll I could stop. Well now my car shifts higher than what it did and I get a small like rattle noise from my tranny when it's in drive or over drive. What did I do?

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Old Mar 20, 2012 | 12:51 AM
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Re: How bad did I hurt my tranny?

Sounds like the trans. was unhappy and cut itself.
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Old Mar 20, 2012 | 05:50 AM
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Re: How bad did I hurt my tranny?

Can I get a serious answer
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Old Mar 20, 2012 | 07:38 AM
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Re: How bad did I hurt my tranny?

Cars not shifting till around 3500 rpm and when it shifts it shifts hard.... I need help
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Old Mar 20, 2012 | 10:07 AM
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TTt
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Old Mar 20, 2012 | 11:59 AM
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Re: How bad did I hurt my tranny?

All gears still work and it goes into park
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Old Mar 20, 2012 | 02:34 PM
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TTT
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Old Mar 20, 2012 | 03:03 PM
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Re: How bad did I hurt my tranny?

all park is is like a little pin that locks your gears. if you put it in park and roll you got a problem. if its good in park just listen for a while and be nice on it until your positive nothing broke
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Old Mar 20, 2012 | 03:14 PM
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Re: How bad did I hurt my tranny?

I tried park last night and it's still stable and doesn't roll, weird thing is I drove it around town for like 15-20 minutes today and after a while it started shifting like normal, smooth and low rpm shifting, I'm lost. Tv adjustment time again??
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Old Mar 20, 2012 | 03:19 PM
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Re: How bad did I hurt my tranny?

i would try to adjust it again. just be carefull adjusting it couse you can easily burnout your trans. could the reason it stalled have to do with the high shifting?
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Old Mar 20, 2012 | 04:17 PM
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Re: How bad did I hurt my tranny?

No it started stalling out because my engine was vapor locking so it want getting fuel . I adjusted it and all seems good
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