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Originally Posted by Brandon_SLC
Have a lot of people been test driving it?
I wonder how far it would have gone before the tranny issue on a cross country trip. 
I Can answer my own question. There's actually no way to know. 
Sometimes long distance freeway driving won't trigger a first gear stuckage problem because it's almost all done in 4th gear. And vice a verse. Sometimes the extra heat generated by long distance freeway driving, especially climbing steep mountain grades, can trigger a problem that would not have shown up driving in town.
Could the problem with your car be caused by a broken kick down switch? |
Certainly could be. It's had....a half-dozen different test drivers, at least. It seems to have cropped up out of nowhere -- my dad takes it out periodically to keep everything going, then I had a test drive, and the driver reported it wouldn't shift out of first. Was the first I'd heard of transmission issues till that point.
Its shift points were a little messed up already due to vacuum issues that I didn't have time to get sorted out, it could be related to that as well.
This '83 tranny doesn't have a kickdown cable, it's electronic. It could be bad, certainly, but I (unless it's stuck in kickdown mode) don't see that being the issue.