Hi Folks: I'm working on this Intrepid for a friend. Twice, she says it won't come out of first gear, and it started whining (maybe at the same time). It's whining all the time now, except when it's first started for about 10 minutes. Even when it's hot, if you shut it off for a few minutes, it will stop whining for a few minutes when started, when I know it must still be hot. It drives and shifts fine until 'something' happens and it's either dropping out of gear completely, or just not coming out of first. It doesn't whine on the idle, but does just coming off the idle. It whines in gear when power-breaking it, but the tone changes in reverse. The whine frequency is proportional to the engine speed, not the vehicle speed. Does this sound like the pump in the front of the tranny? I think I can 'feel' the whining in the hoses running to the radiator. Can this pump be easily changed (outside of pulling the tranny first)? She has 200,000 good miles on this car and I'm suprised how easy it looks to work on. She says she'd buy another one.
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18 years ago