problem starting in park with Auto transmission

[Alitis007]

Altise...The handbrake was actually ON, the V8 obviously pushed through it no problem so i guess it didnt hold the car so good

At the end of the day shite happens!! And you know for next time

[04OFF]

yes it does !

try a nulon auto transmission treatment to try and soften the seals to ease the shift.

Lucas make a good auto treatment as well

[lhurley]

Im a fan of Castrol Transmax Z. An auto shop will be able to have a look and fix it up.

Just my 2 cents here, dont just live with any "problems" or quirks your auto has, get it checked. I learnt that the hard way, mine had rough gear changes and dirty oil, changed the oil no real difference, so i just monitored it. Monitored it until when i was driving on the highway and the torque converter bearing collapsed and cause a butt load of damage to my auto. its in the shop now, last quote was $4500!!! The place thats doing my repairs has services for around $250, i would highly recommend getting it looked by a pro as soon as you can before you get stung.

[nissannewby]

Im sure your mates could help you on this one surely they would know someone or somewhere to get it done cheap. But as others have stated its far cheaper and a better option to repair small niggles as they happen otherwise like lhurley has stated you could end up with a catastrphic failure.

[ckh]

Hard shift between 1 and 2 could be shift solenoid or your tps is out of adjustment, before you go spending $$$ on a service try a nulon auto transmission treatment to try and soften the seals to ease the shift.

What is " tps"?

[BearGUST]

TPS is a Throttle Position Sensor, I think you mentioned yours is carby so it won't have one.

[Alitis007]

Just re read the thread and just realized it was carby so sorry bout that and yeh disregard the TPS. On the carby check the adjustment of the kick down cable unless its electric cant remember 100% havnt worked on a gq in a while.

[ckh]

Just re read the thread and just realized it was carby so sorry bout that and yeh disregard the TPS. On the carby check the adjustment of the kick down cable unless its electric cant remember 100% havnt worked on a gq in a while.

Going to drain tranny fluid tomorrow and put good stuff in along with the nulon additive, see if that makes a difference...

[ckh]

Going to drain tranny fluid tomorrow and put good stuff in along with the nulon additive, see if that makes a difference...

never having had removed a tranny sump before was an experience, there was 1 bolt which didnt want to let go.. any ways cheaned the usual off the magnet, no big chunks of mental or belt, filled it up with dex III and added the nulon tranny additive, havent diven it any distance yet to alow it to work its way around the tranny, but a couple of laps around the block and can notice a difference... not knowing what an 89 auto tranny is supposed to feel like when its running fine, I suppose it would be unrealistic to compare it my my mates 1 week old FJ cruiser, you cant even feel the gear changes.. Did some googling and found how to put tranny into its self diagnostic mode, got 10 quick flashes of the power like to all test passed... Might look at getting a proper service done in the next few months, as I couldnt see or find any "filter" when I had the sump off, plus engraved in the sump was the name of an auto place and the date of 27-11-97, so might have been a while since its had a service and needs belts tensioned and adjusted etc....

[93patrol]

i had an VK dunnydore and every time i put it in for an auto service they adjusted the clutch bands around the auto because they were loose and cause to tranny to pause then shift which gave it a clunk, that was about the time to put it in to get it serviced and in the end i learnt how to do it myself. maybe this is one of the things wrong would definately get a autotrans service by a pro done though they will also adjust or fix your park switch as well.