Somethings up with my transmission

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Somethings up with my transmission

June 08, 2011, 01:43:11 AM

I can push it to 40-45 and it wont go into 3rd just stays in 2nd. I believe it has the t-3 what could be the problem? Car itself only has 26k miles.

Somethings up with my transmission

Reply #1 – June 08, 2011, 01:35:11 PM

I personally have never heard of a t-3, but I'm taking its an automatic transmission you have......... the first thing I think of is the T.V. cable on an aod, or something wrong with the vacuum system on.....what is it.... c4, c5, or a c6 auto transmission. I'm sure someone here on the site will be able to help, and if you can, try to figure out what transmission you have in your car cause that will help alot knowing where to start to determine whats wrong...... Best of luck and hope the problem gets solved!!

Somethings up with my transmission

Reply #2 – June 08, 2011, 08:14:35 PM

Oh its a 1987 v6 thunderbird automatic so possibly the c3 or c4? I was thinking of the the t-5 for some reason heh.

Somethings up with my transmission

Reply #3 – June 08, 2011, 08:27:24 PM

It's an AOD, and your problem is probably either where the TV cable attaches to the throttle lever (the plastic bushing commonly breaks) or the lever on the tranny where the TV cable attaches is sticking, tricking the tranny into thinking you've got your foot planted, causing harder and delayed shifts

Somethings up with my transmission

Reply #4 – June 08, 2011, 10:33:47 PM

Thanks, I'll have to check those two things out.

Somethings up with my transmission

Reply #5 – June 16, 2011, 12:32:30 AM

So I got to check out the bird today and this is waht I found.

It was detatched. So i reatatched

Could this be what was causing the problem?