Wow, by the number of tranny threads, it seems like this is the season for dying trannys. My problem, however is much deeper.

I take it to the shop, get a low mileage tranny and am told I need new engine mounts. I recalled the feeling before i took it in and remembered that there was a bit of rocking from time to time, never consistant. I get the car back and the damn tranny is showing the same habbits my dead one did before it crashed, i.e. irregular shifting, prolonged/shortened gears etc. This told me that it was something electrical that caused my last problem. I'm not worried about that as much as i am about my mounts. The engine rocks enormously. Putting in gear, accelerating or even just stopping, the damn thing rocks so bad it scares me. The car feels worse after I payed 1,400 than it did before. Somethings not right.

I take his advice and get mounts asap. Look what I discover:

Engine Mount.... Mounted to nothing (yes i know i have axle grease everywhere, thats next.)

Yes that's right, they swaped in the transmission and forgot the bracket that connects to the engine mount. -The actual part that serves the engine mounts purpose. They sent that bracket back to No. Cali with my transmission in the core exchange. But even before that, when i first took off my tire I also noticed this:


Rims...on the wrong side of the vehicle.

So what can I reasonably ask this shop to do for this?

 

this is the number 1 reason i do all my work on my car you just cant trust some of the retards out there that call them selves machanics

 

What do you mean the rims are on the wrong side of the vehicle? I'm lost there...

 

Oh, I get it! I had to look at the 'rims on the wrong side of the vehicle' pic for awhile though! Never had directional tread tires on my cars! Seems like you got an open/shut case on those 'mechanics' to go out and find you another motor mount and bracket and put it on FOR FREE or pay you a bunch of money to do it yourself.

 

they owe you a bracket. and if you want to trust them, putting the tires back on the right sides

 

It's a nice and horrible drive... I only drove it around with no bracket for 2 days very gingerly. Do you think theres any possible way i put too much wear on anything by doing that? I don't want to wind up replacing other stuff just because of these mounts...

 

id get the engine mount for free, take it to another shop that you could trust more, see if they think it did any damage and then have them assess the new used tranny to see how well it was built etc. then if its bad or somethings wrong take the paper showing the evidence that something got damaged and that they need to fix/ replace it for free. and if they refuse, u could just sue them or take them to court to fix it, oh and if there is a problem, make them pay for the other guy looking at it too

 

just what id try to do, may not all work, but some might

 

Well i visit these guys tomorrow to discuss the engine mount deal but even after that I'm still left with my original problem.

Anyone know what the whole prolonged first/shortened second gear problem is caused by. I am pretty sure it's electrical and am almost guessing it might be the TBS. Anyone ever experience/fix this?

 

the engine mount looks broken.

it should have 2 studs in it on a L shaped bracket.

the bracket on the tranny should also be L shaped...it bolts to those 2 holes that you see in the pic and wraps around to the governor/oil filter area.

UNLESS they changed design on me or something.

 

do u have an aftermarket intake?

 

Yeah, what makes u ask that?

 

so if the car shifts hard, and it feels like the entire car is shaking, its the engine mount rather than the tranny?

 

nonono, The engine mount was just one of the things that needed to be replace before they could do some tests to diagnose the problem. I took it in today and told them all the things they messed up on and they offered to replace the mount, bracket, and run a diagnosis for free. After that, I talked to him on the phone and he told me my week/prolonged shifting has to do with the main harness leading to the transmission.

Apparently there is no line pressure after 1st gear under heavy acceleration. I hope the electrical problem is small and easy to fix... Havn't discussed charges yet. :-/

 

cause my friend has a cone filter, pop charger, whatever you wanna callit and the tranny started fing up on him so he went to 2 shops the first one said yeah u need a new tranny, the second one said no you dont, the computer thinks your tranny is messing up and thats why its doing it and that they will reset it but it will eventually go back to thinking that beacause of the diffrence in mixture than what the computer thinks it should be

 

if putting an intake on a auto max would mess up the tranny dont you think the 100's maybe even 1000's of auto maxes out there with intake would complain about this problem. i mean i even put intake on my moms murcury villager van (same drivetrain as the max) and it still runs and shifts fine

 

yeah, well i m fine too and mines aftermarket, i was just trying to help him explore every cheaper option before spending lots of money