Crazy car trouble, help please...
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Crazy car trouble, help please...
Ok guys, i just got my automatic transmission rebuilt exactly one year two weeks ago (just missed the one year warranty), and today I was driving normally to my friends house picking him up to go to work. I pull in his driveway, throw it in park and sit there with the engine running. Im sitting for a few minutes and decide to give a quick little rev, and it felt very resistant. So I freak out, and rev it again and it wont rev over 2 grand! I put it in drive, and it has this crazy hesitant feeling, like similar to if the parking brake was pulled, I put it in neutral, give it a rev, and it rolls forward a tad, still feeling hesitant, not going over 2k! I put it in reverse, same weird feeling! No SES light, engine sounds fine, good oil pressure, starts up fine. Is this a transmission problem or what, I can't figure it out. Any ideas?
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If the car is in neutral/park and the car still doesn't rev over 2000rpm, then it's very unlikely that it's a transmission problem. Is the car missing? Shaking? Any noises?
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+1 definitely not a transmission problem. sounds kinda like a loose plug wire, or pcm problem. maybe even a vacuum leak (less likely from the way you describe it)
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I dont know i this is true in all gm cars, my 99 is a m6 so I cannot test it in my car, but I know that most sedans gm makes the car has a different rev limit setting for park and neutral. That is there for you guys who like to rev the He$% out of them without any load on the engine. I believe it is around 2000 rpm. As far as it being hesitant I dont know. Does it rev above 2000 when driving down the road?
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I dont know i this is true in all gm cars, my 99 is a m6 so I cannot test it in my car, but I know that most sedans gm makes the car has a different rev limit setting for park and neutral. That is there for you guys who like to rev the He$% out of them without any load on the engine. I believe it is around 2000 rpm. As far as it being hesitant I dont know. Does it rev above 2000 when driving down the road?
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Could be trying to be in two gears at once, that will lock it up. Something seriously wrong with the valve body might do it. That would explain why there is essentially no neutral and no go either.
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idk much about tranmissions but when my car did this not long ago some dumbass before me sparayed crap all over the MAF and it wouldnt go over 2k rpm for nothing replaced it with a new MAF and the problem was fixed