The car has been acting wierd lately. Stalling at low idle, surging rpms with foot off the gas, sometimes 1200+ idle rpm when warm. Well today I got a chance to check the fluid. It looks new and smells ok, but the level is a tad low. Before I checked, when I cycled through the gears, when I put it in reverse from park, it made a loud thunk. I cycled the rest of the gears, and they were fine. When I made it back to park and put it in reverse again, once again it made a loud thunk and shook the car. Has anyone else had this problem? I'm going to add a little fluid and see if it cures it but it sounds like the tranny is going

 

i just got done doing the vb and i overfilled mine which made all my gears not respond once i came to a full stop. to move i had to throttle to 1k rpms and got more of a jerk, not really any noise. after i took out some fluid and got it in the tiny sweet spot everything is fine. reverse was the last gear to respond, i suppose since i dont use it very much.

on my old 90 when the fluid was too low the car would stick in certain gears, for instance i found it was stuck in 2nd and 3rd until i added more fluid.

try getting the fluid just right, make sure to check the fluid while the car is running and has been warmed up, and i think being in neutral is the optimum position.

good luck

 

ttt

 

how many miles on the tranny?
what year?

 

106k, 96