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Old 05-11-2010, 03:34 PM   #14
zzyzzx2
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Re: automatic tranmission problem

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Originally Posted by Davescort97 View Post
There are 4 potential reasons your tranny won't go. Transmission shift cable is broken, bad control valves, Oil pump dirty, broken, or damaged seals, torque converter damaged. Take it to a transmisson shop. They will, no doubt, tell you the 4EAT needs to be replaced. If you've got the money, do it. It would be good for another 100k.
It should last a lot longer than 100K. Having said that, it certainly wont if your kid does this again:

said that day it happened he put in reverse and backed up and then he put it in forward gear

Sounds to me like he put it into forward while it was still moving backwards!
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