2006-12-05 20:03:51 · 11 answers · asked by slimstv187x 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Car Makes ➔ Chevrolet
Not shifting is caused by different things. First check your fluid level. Car idleing, oil warm should show full. Using a white paper towel to wipe the dip stick...what color is left on the towel? If you see red around the edges bleeding away from the center of the area on the towel...thats normal....tell me whats in the center...is it light gray...dark grey...more black than grey etc. Does it smell burned? Your nose can tell...honestly. When was the last time you, or anyone you know that owned the car..changed the transmission oil and filter? An old filter, and a very dark color to the oil can mean the trans had gone out. Losing its clutch packs, by slipping to the point that they heat up (burnout) and will not lockup and hold. You will feel it shift maybe to one gear, but go into neutral...not neutral really...it is slipping so bad you feel it is in neutral. There was a young friend of my sons that was driving across a field...hit a clump of brush and as he got back on the road, the Turbo 350 would not shift right. When they came home he ask me what it could be...I gave him my flashlight , ask him to look under from passenger side, and see if there was a round gold or silver , small cannister sticking out of the side of the transmission , about where the oil pan stopped, but just above it. He said yes there was one there,,,I told him it has a two inch rubber line attached to the nipple on the cannister and it mates to a steel line coming down from the back of the engine...No it is just there with no line attached. What was missing was the vacume line that mates to the modulator..and helps the transmission apply pressure so it shifts right. He found it dangling near the starter...he attached it, and I had him use two plastic tie wraps to hold it in position,next to the transmission dipstick tube. It really did shift better with the vacume line attached...without it it slipped going from first gear to second real bad. If he had tried to drive it without it attached, the transmission would have burned out the clutch packs in 3 or 4 hours or less. Check your vacume line. Yell back here and let me know what you see or find.
2006-12-05 20:35:44 · answer #1 · answered by Spin 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well From The Sound of It, It Also Sounds Like it Could Be the Governer I Had a Chevy 700r4 Trans and It Had a Similar Problem I Was Driving and It Just Went Out One Day. Its a Plastic Gear That Had Shattered Within The Tranny and I Lost All Gears Except Reverse and First Gear .. You Might Want to Give that a Look as Well, You Can Locate This Governer on the Left Rear Side of the Trans its a Dome Cap You Pop Off and The Governer is Right There, Pull it Out and See if the Plastic Gear at the End is Broken or Shattered, Also Check For the Broken Pieces in Your Trans Oil Pan .. if So There is Your Problem, Best of Luck to You
2006-12-05 21:59:11 · answer #2 · answered by Eazy-E 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It sounds exactly like what a friend had happen with his truck with a turbo 350. They forgot to hook up the vacuum line, and it wouldn't shift. Yours may have gotten loose and fallen off. Crawl under and check it out, or it may have come unhooked from the outlet on the intake manifold.
2006-12-06 03:48:15 · answer #3 · answered by sethle99 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It could be your vacum modulater on the tranmission, check and see if the vacum line is broken or the vacum modulater is bad. Sometimes if either is the problem it will not shift out of low gear. It may be you will have to replace the tranny.
2006-12-05 20:31:58 · answer #4 · answered by Larry L 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
if the car will shift when you do it manually then i would look underneath and check by the rear right side of the tranny for the trany module to make sure the vacum hose is connected. it will do this if the hose comes off.
2006-12-09 05:04:10 · answer #5 · answered by william r 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it the trans pulls ok in first and dont slip check the modulater valve also check the governor it may have a broken gear or spring on it
2006-12-05 22:01:48 · answer #6 · answered by tony3798 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
sounds like the clutches are burnt out, the tranny will usually lose the higher gears first , but the best thing to do is go by a tranny shop and let them look it over.
2006-12-06 11:58:54 · answer #7 · answered by crankshaft 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like the linkage needs an adjustment. However, it could be a problem with the neutral safety switch too.
2006-12-06 00:10:05 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
NO vacuum to modulator, stripped gov gear,downshift cable stuck Drop pan ,ck for evidence of failure.
2006-12-06 05:57:18 · answer #9 · answered by deltech 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
check the linkage or your trans is just F up time for a rebuild
2006-12-05 20:08:24 · answer #10 · answered by Normefoo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋