Park and Nuetral..Acting like gear engaging.

[scarredpelt]

My brother recently acquired a slightly used 1995 Chevrolet Lumina with almost 200,000 miles. When the trannie is in Park of Neutral there is a clunking noise accompanied by a jerk in the car that leads one to believe the vehicle is attempting to go into gear. What could be the problem?

[Bruticus]

Originally Posted by scarredpelt

My brother recently acquired a slightly used 1995 Chevrolet Lumina with almost 200,000 miles. When the trannie is in Park of Neutral there is a clunking noise accompanied by a jerk in the car that leads one to believe the vehicle is attempting to go into gear. What could be the problem?

Does it do the same when u put it in drive ? Also is that the original transmission in the car ? I had the same problem with my 95 Lumina the trannies in this car arent the best. I will be shocked if u tell me thats the original 4t60e tranny in the car with that mileage mine dies after 106,000 miles. Before it died it use to make that clunk sound when i would put her in gear and when i drove it it would act weird before it would shift into second gear. Thats a common problem for those trannies.

[scarredpelt]

To the best of my knowledge the vehicle acts normally when in drive. He has had it only a short time. Right now we have it up on ramps to work on it and it hasn't moved in a week.

As to the possibility of it being the original, I kinda doubt it. The switch box on top of the tranny where the gear shift linkage is had a stripped bolt which leads me to believe that there was some reason to remove it. I can only assume that it was to do work on the tranny.

[prem_jacob]

I own a 2004 lumina. while i dont get a noise there is definate and more thna normal jerk every time i move into drive or reverse.