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:Flame: I need to find a place in southern cali that has SUBARU PARTS FOR MY 85 GL 4X4 WAGON MY AUTO TRANS WONT SHIFT

 

Check craigslist. There is a guy who is selling brand new trannies. I think cyberbackpacker posted about this.

 

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older transmissions operate like an hydraulic computer. They are constantly balancing out throttle pressure (modulator) vs govenor pressure. Without either one of these the car wont shift properly.

Check your govenor, it may be bad or stuck.

 

 

nipper

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older transmissions operate like an hydraulic computer. They are constantly balancing out throttle pressure (modulator) vs govenor pressure. Without either one of these the car wont shift properly.

Check your govenor, it may be bad or stuck.

 

 

nipper

 

holy cow, you have no idea how much that simple explanation made things that I haven't really quite grokked in years and years of trying, go *click* in my head. Really loudly.

 

Thank you. :clap:

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A better explination without me doing a lot of typing

 

http://auto.howstuffworks.com/automatic-transmission6.htm

 

Your welcome (i love teaching, hate typing)

 

 

nipper

 

I am rather astute at both, if I do say so myself.. (that is why so many of my posts extend so long.. I suspect that just about any of us who type the "books" here all the time can probably type at least 50-60 WPM) but I have always mostly ignored automatic transmissions and it is a sheer accident of fate that I own one now.

 

What I am saying is, I have been far from motivated to learn about something I never wanted to use, much less have to diagnose or repair. Thanks again for showing me the light anyhow, since I (regretfully) need to know these things.

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I am rather astute at both, if I do say so myself.. (that is why so many of my posts extend so long.. I suspect that just about any of us who type the "books" here all the time can probably type at least 50-60 WPM) but I have always mostly ignored automatic transmissions and it is a sheer accident of fate that I own one now.

 

What I am saying is, I have been far from motivated to learn about something I never wanted to use, much less have to diagnose or repair. Thanks again for showing me the light anyhow, since I (regretfully) need to know these things.

 

The new computer controlled trannies do away with a lot of the parts that would cause a tranny to fail. The govenor (replaced with the VSS), modulator (ECU input) and most the valve body (solenoids) are gone. Clutch bands are disapearing (replaced with clutch packs).

 

The basics of automatic trannies have been around since the begining. The model A ford had a planetary gear set. Those three pedals on the floor were for the brakes, low and high gear (press it in you were in low), and reverse. Throttle and ignition advance were on the steering wheel hub.

 

http://www.barefootsworld.net/ford-t-4-beginners.html

 

nipper

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