Hey guys,

Something weird happenned to me this morning.

I started up my car ('90 GXE), and as usual I let it run a little before moving off. However, this time as I moved off, the tranny shifted from first to second, and refused to shift any further.

After driving about a 1/4 mile or so, I pulled over, and put the transmission in park, allowed the car to run a little more, then pulled off. Same thing happenned.

Pulled over once agin and allowed the car to idle a bit longer, everthing was fine after that.

Is this something I should be worried about, or is it indicative of a tranny problem down the road?

I'm about to drain the fluid this week and replace with AMSOIL synthetic.

 

I'm gonna take a guess here and say it's your shifter bushing?

It sounds like when you're in "Drive" the car thinks it's in "2".

But wait for someone who actually knows something replies before taking any action

 

it's probably the shifter... i'm looking at a 91 gxe maxima and sometimes when i go from p to d if i don't let it lock in right it goes into neutral...

check the shifter

 

could be your shift solenoids too, theres a diagnostic for the tranny around here somewhere, it will tell you if the tranny's electronics are screwy, just do a search, also, have you ever had any problems with the O/D?