I suspect the transmission is on it's way out. It got to where it would not go into high gear after having driven for about 20 miles. When it was brought in it ran so badly you could not really tell much about the transmission because of it being in limp home going on. The guy that brought it in said that he had just had a transmission fluid/filter change done by a transmission shop in Warner Robins. After seeing such poor performance I drained the transmission and dropped the pan/filter. I have attached a pic of the filter. It is badly plugged and had some substantial dirt/nasty on top of it. Could a severely plugged filter cause a car to not go into high gear? I would think it could because it would be similar to running it with the transmission fluid too low. I suspect this is the result of one of those transmissions that never got the fluid changed. I'll let ya'll know the results over the next day or so.

Oh yea, there are no engine runnability issues anymore.

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