My transmission started giving me intermittent problems a couple weeks ago. I have a 93 gxe, sometimes it won't go into reverse. When it is in reverse it sits as if it's in neutral, in neutral the car goes forward, in drive the car goes forward, in park the car jerks a little and stops. I took it to the tranny shop but they couldn't reproduce the problem, they said the fluid was pretty dark so they flushed the fluid until it came out clean (17 qts). The transmission does shift smoother now and I thought that may have fixed it but today I was backing up and the car started jerking and then just stopped in place. The engine does not seem affected by the problem, there is no stalling or anything, I can still drive it when the transmission is acting up but I can't back up. There haven't been any grinding noises or anything like that. Does anyone out there have some suggestions?

 

The vg autotragic cancer strikes again..

Sounds like the tranny is done dude..

 

I hope not but at 213,000 miles on the tranny I was thinking that's probably the case

 

I just did the self diagnostic procedure described in the FSM, the code it gave was for a shorted or disconnected revolution sensor so I'll try to go through the check procedure for that later today when I have some time.

 

**** son, my transmission gave out a couple of months ago. It acted funny for some time before, and then worked flawlessly for about a year. But now it's pretty much the same as yours, so I've been driving without a reverse for two months. When I put it on drive, it seems to only use one speed, so acceleration is slow as hell. I live in town, so I can do without a reverse for now, and it still gets me from A to B, but I'm fixin' to get it replaced.

 

tranny is probable gone. but i hope for you its just that sensor.

 

I got the sensor unplugged to look at it but the end of the wire harness is clipped to the transmission and I have big hands, so I couldn't get the multimeter leads in there to test the resistance on the sensor. The transmission hasn't acted up for a few days now but I also haven't driven it much. Even when reverse is gone and neutral is acting up the car goes just fine in drive, it shifts just like normal.

 

On a VG Transmission with that many miles on it, you should know that it's god himself that is holding it together. If you ask me, I'd say that your gears will start slipping soon and the trans will be done. I'm sorry to say that but VG Autos blow. Mine only lasted for 134,000 miles so I guess that you should feel lucky.

 

b4 i converted to manual on my old vg, it had 340k+ miles on the auto tranny. when it acted up. just filled the whole thing up with lucas transmission fix. ran that for a while and swapped it out to normal atf fluid again. worked for another 70k and did again.

 

After plugging that sensor back in there haven't been any problems, I don't think that was the problem but it's been a few weeks and nothing has happened so hopefully the tranny flush fixed it.