Check tranny fluid within 1 minute of turning car OFF when on level
ground. This aint a chevy.

tww wrote:
> "akes" <dsg01@webmail.co.za> wrote in message
> news:1166522498.432938.187640@t46g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com...
> >
> > yesk13 wrote:
> > > Looks like your transmission just slipped! You need to check your
> transmission fluid level while the car is running and on a level ground.
> Have you changed your transmission fluid recently? Is the transmission fluid
> black or very dark brown color? If yes, then your transmission is a gonner,
> you need to rebuild your transmission. The old transmission fluid was
> holding the transmission together, after you replace with new fluid the
> dirty fluid that was holding it together are lost. Therefore, your
> transmission slipped. You can rev hight but the car wouldn't move forward,
> it just keeps revving.
> > >
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> > thanx for confirming what i suspected - it costs $500 for a replacement
> > transmission here - now the wife wants to get rid of the car! i have
> > spent $800 on maintenance for the year so far but she is fed up
> > now...its in the shop every month...i love this car though so i
> > dunno....and the performance is good for such an old car....sometimes i
> > forget its a 1990 model....funny that a recommended transmission oil
> > change killed it..so it was already dead...the old oil was the life
> > support? i'm in south africa by the way...of u guys know of any cheap
> > tranny places down here lemmie know!!!!
> >
> Spent first 16 yrs of my life in S.Africa -- PE. My father was sent to ZA in
> 1936 from the States when Firestone opened a plant in Port Elizabeth. We
> returned to the US in 1957, so my recollection of my life there would a time
> warp. Now am retired USAF living in Georgia.