Shortly after leaving home in my '87 Buick Le Sabre, it shiftly fine into first gear, but when shifting into second, seemed to suddenly go into neutral. I had to ride in first gear at 15 MPH to get it anywhere. When back at home, fluid was checked; level was OK and fluid did not smell burned. The trans. fluid and filter were changed one year and 8,000 miles ago, but we decided to change everything again. There was quite a bit of metal shavings on the magnet in the pan, and the filter looked very dirty. After the change, we took the car for a test drive. It seemed to do quite well until we had driven long enough to warm it up, then the same thing happened again with second gear. It almost seems to be a temperature issue. The car has approx. 118,000 miles. Is the entire transmission shot, or could it be an individual part or problem we have overlooked? We replaced the vaccum modulator and the vaccum lines were checked out before the test drive.
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17 years ago