94 Shadow Shifting Problems!
ve9aa
10-31-2004, 11:36 AM
Help~!
We've owned since March a 94 Dodge Shadow 2.2l auto, with 124,000miles (200k kms) on it .
Always have had a very minor shifting problem with it that would only
creep up every month or two. Lately it's escalated to the point of not being able to drive it !
Initially if you were cruising along at highway speed and on the flat, or a very slight downgrade, the tranny would shift into neutral w/o you knowing it. When you applied the gas pedal, you couldn't go anywhere, until you coasted to a stop and then once you took off again, it would shift fine through all the gears and life would be OK until the next month, LOL.
This past week its shifted into Neutral a lot more often and even on a steep downgrade, almost instantaneously.
My wife just called me from work. Today it wouldn't shift up past 2nd gear, so she had it wound out @ who knows what RPM, limping along the highway as best she could, as fast as she could go in 2nd w/o blowing up the engine. She tried stopping a few times, but it would never go up past 2nd. Tried turning the car off, etc. but no go.
We're quite tight w/ $$ (read; poor) and so taking it to a TRanny shop just isn't an option.
I do have 2 other Shadows, (both 2.2L autos). One is a pure parts car (a 91) and the other just came off the road today as inspection/safety ran out and the car needs way too many repairs to be worth putting back on the road.
Do you think it could be as easy as changing out the tranny fluid, or would I need to swap in another tranny?
I tinker with cars but have never done a tranny swap. What is involved?
I have normal hand tools, a few air tools, but no real specialty items.
It's getting pretty cold here these days, so gonna have to do something QUICK !
Much thanks in advance for any advice that can be given.
Mike in NB Canada
We've owned since March a 94 Dodge Shadow 2.2l auto, with 124,000miles (200k kms) on it .
Always have had a very minor shifting problem with it that would only
creep up every month or two. Lately it's escalated to the point of not being able to drive it !
Initially if you were cruising along at highway speed and on the flat, or a very slight downgrade, the tranny would shift into neutral w/o you knowing it. When you applied the gas pedal, you couldn't go anywhere, until you coasted to a stop and then once you took off again, it would shift fine through all the gears and life would be OK until the next month, LOL.
This past week its shifted into Neutral a lot more often and even on a steep downgrade, almost instantaneously.
My wife just called me from work. Today it wouldn't shift up past 2nd gear, so she had it wound out @ who knows what RPM, limping along the highway as best she could, as fast as she could go in 2nd w/o blowing up the engine. She tried stopping a few times, but it would never go up past 2nd. Tried turning the car off, etc. but no go.
We're quite tight w/ $$ (read; poor) and so taking it to a TRanny shop just isn't an option.
I do have 2 other Shadows, (both 2.2L autos). One is a pure parts car (a 91) and the other just came off the road today as inspection/safety ran out and the car needs way too many repairs to be worth putting back on the road.
Do you think it could be as easy as changing out the tranny fluid, or would I need to swap in another tranny?
I tinker with cars but have never done a tranny swap. What is involved?
I have normal hand tools, a few air tools, but no real specialty items.
It's getting pretty cold here these days, so gonna have to do something QUICK !
Much thanks in advance for any advice that can be given.
Mike in NB Canada
rwood13
11-01-2004, 01:21 PM
check the fluid, changing the fluid would be a toss up, if you do read about a procedure where you have a large container (5 gal bucket) of fresh trans fluid, put the suction line from the tranny into the fluid, put another line from the discharge into an empty container, start car, run it throught the gears, have friend keep eye on suction bucket, once empty shut off NOW, this is suoppose to flush out more dirt then a normal change, if ether two extras are known good, swap, not too hard, jack it, drain it, pull axles, unbolt converter, unbolt trans, reverse procedure to get back in ...... why not take parts from bad tranny car and make unsafe one safe?
Automotive Network, Inc., Copyright ©2026