Tranny had been working fine. Stopped at a 4 way stop and when we started again the car shifted normal from 1-2 and sorta made a lunge from 2-3 and then it quit pulling. It is like it is in nuetral in any gear you put it in. Fluid is full and has no foul odor. 243K on the car.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

I'm not a tranny expert, but I believe that the usual failure mode is a lot more drawn out. Sounds a little like a B2 piston failure, but you normally still have reverse in that scenario. Still, it may be as good a place as any to start looking. If you get lucky and it is a B2, it's a comparatively cheap fix.

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82 300 SD
77 450 SL (gone)

Did you check to see if a flex disk failed maybe??

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'05 Acura TL 6MT
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Gone:
'95 E300 188K "Batmobile" Texas Unfriendly Black
'85 300TD 235K "The Wagon" Texas Friendly White
'80 240D 154K "China" Scar engine installed
'81 300TD 240K "Smash"
'80 240D 230K "The Squash"
'81 240D 293K"Scar" Rear ended harder than Elton John

I'm not real sure as to what a flex disc is?

Car acts like it wants to move if you rev it up in forward gear. It will not move in reverse.

Flex disks are basically couplings at either end of your drive shaft. One at tranny, one are rear end.
Doesn't sound like it would be them if it tries to pull a little bit in forward......

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'05 Acura TL 6MT
2001 ML430 My Spare

Gone:
'95 E300 188K "Batmobile" Texas Unfriendly Black
'85 300TD 235K "The Wagon" Texas Friendly White
'80 240D 154K "China" Scar engine installed
'81 300TD 240K "Smash"
'80 240D 230K "The Squash"
'81 240D 293K"Scar" Rear ended harder than Elton John

so are you saying it doesn't work at all now? What model/year is your car? You should put that in your signature so people have a rough idea of what problem to address.

If you have no reverse gear left either it could be b3 clutch plates or worse, if you have no gears left then it could be b3 pressure plate springs have blown out and did bad things (this happened to mine..no damage, but strange things occurred afterwards).

A lot of things can be done with the tranny still attached (b2 being one of them as tjohn said) but with the number of miles on your car you may be looking at a full rebuild.

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1979 300SD 245K miles (never ending project)
2007 Pinarello F3:13
1995 Ducati 916 (SOLD, sniff)
1999 Ducati 900SSie (SOLD)

Uh oh, cost of living just went up. Looks like he has a '90 350SDL

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Jimmy L.
'05 Acura TL 6MT
2001 ML430 My Spare

Gone:
'95 E300 188K "Batmobile" Texas Unfriendly Black
'85 300TD 235K "The Wagon" Texas Friendly White
'80 240D 154K "China" Scar engine installed
'81 300TD 240K "Smash"
'80 240D 230K "The Squash"
'81 240D 293K"Scar" Rear ended harder than Elton John

made it to 243K....might be one of the lucky ones. In fact I'd say IS one of the lucky ones.

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1982 300TD 210K miles ("The Replacement" aka "The Anvil") - SOLD
1979 300SD 245K miles (never ending project)
2007 Pinarello F3:13
1995 Ducati 916 (SOLD, sniff)
1999 Ducati 900SSie (SOLD)