Well, I haven't yet been able to do anything to my tranny so I've been very easy on the car. All was well until this afternoon. I was driving home from Walmart, took off from a light and the 1-2 was suddenly shuddering, as was the 2-3. I came straight home, parked the car and let it sit for some time. Later, I was going to leave, and when I put the car into reverse, it didn't engage right away. When it did, the whole car shuddered and jerked as I attempted to back out. I knew that this wasn't gonna work, so I put it in drive to pull back up and the same thing happened: hesitant to engage, jerked while in motion. It was parked until the evening when my dad wanted to drive it and see what it was doing. When he came back, he described what it was doing as "losing power". He checked and found the fluid to be up to his standards, and immediately diagnosed it as a problem with the distributor.
After I explained that the engine didn't HAVE a distributor, he suggested it be a problem with a coil. I was insistent that it was a trans prob, but just to please him (and perhaps in an effort to prove him wrong) I went about testing the coil packs with a multimeter. All seemed well until I checked the secondary resistance: ALL of them were between 400 and 800 Ohms higher than the 14k Ohm max listed in the Haynes manual.
Mind you, my dad's never worked as a mechanic. He's just old and has owned a lot of cars.
I'm planning to take the care in to get checked tomorrow morn, what should I be telling them to look at?
Mind you, my dad's never worked as a mechanic. He's just old and has owned a lot of cars.
I'm planning to take the care in to get checked tomorrow morn, what should I be telling them to look at?