Thank you for your quick response. Yes it is the factory color. The car is in very good shap, it just needs a little TLC. I will check the modulator and the kick down linkage this weekend and let you know how it turns out. It seem that this problem only exit at start up. This morning as I was going to work it would not shift. I put the car in "L" and drove it for about two blocks and then put it back in "D" and it started working. How do the modulator work? What is it's funtion?

When you the mdulator is on the left side is that looking at the trans from the front of the car or the rear?