2.2 '92 Cavalier (Stalling)

[PatrickW22]

Hi guys,

Hopefully you can help me determine my problem. For some reason, when I've been driving for a while, roughly an hour or so, the transmission seems to loss power. So what happens, I'll be driving in the city and when I begin to stop for a red light, it vibrates like hell, and BAM, it stalls (automatic tranny, btw). Ok, put it neutral and re-try. Starts completely fine. Put it in drive, stalls. Retry. Stalls again in drive. In neutral, if you press on the gas and rev it up a bit, it seems to work and the car will go again. It's a strange thing. I also noticed that when I feel it start to feel it stall, i can put it in neutral and its totally fine. Once its in drive, it'll stall usually. I checked all the fluids, and yadda yadda yadda. It's a fairly new transmission, it only had over 2,000 km's on it, before the dealer had dropped it and broke the case, so i bought it for $100 for the internal gears and rebuilt it with my father.
It's been a year and some, and this is the first time I'm starting to have problems with it. I dont even know if its the transmission, maybe the fuel pump? If I run the diagnostic test by jumping those two nodes with wire, will it show if the fuel pump is going or do I have to pressure test it? Any other ideas on this?

Hopefully you guys can help me out.

Thanks alot

Patrick

[jordancyr]

Sounds like you tcc, pop you hood, look down to your right on your tranny there should be a wire harness going into the tranny, unplug that and then try driving. if it goes away then its you tcc solenoid, and this link will help you.

http://www.v6z24.com/howto/tcc

[public]

Originally Posted by jordancyr

Sounds like you tcc, pop you hood, look down to your right on your tranny there should be a wire harness going into the tranny, unplug that and then try driving. if it goes away then its you tcc solenoid, and this link will help you.

http://www.v6z24.com/howto/tcc

DITTO! One of my favorite repairs. My 94 2.2 has been unplugged for two years now. Still going strong, and I did not notice any drop in MPG. I drive 30 miles to work so if anyone should have noticed a difference it would have been me. Lets just say I am against the "TCC Solenoid" :-)