Michele Posted June 21, 2007 Report Posted June 21, 2007 Took a road trip for the Dub Magazine car show and expo in Miami's South Beach over the weekend with my '96 Cutty. BTW, she's now up about 338K miles now. I had a flawless trip, there and back flying up and down the interstate and around town. No problems! But I tell ya, the old phrase of ''ending a hell of a weekend with a bang'' was not my idea of what occurred monday night. Just got into town, and dropped my bud off at his house. Unbeknownst to me, my car had decided it was time to retire. Take off from his driveway, and get about 100feet away. Old Cutty decides that when she shifts to second gear, all I hear is BANG!!!!!!!!!! there goes my transmission! So now, my old girl is down to just first gear, waiting on her new trans to arrive. Thank god I was olny a short distance from my friend's house, I just limped her back at a whopping 15 miles per hour. Eh, why not drive it.. what am I gonna do? Blow up the trans? Quote
jeremy Posted June 21, 2007 Report Posted June 21, 2007 sorry to hear that she finally gave out on you Quote
Addicted To Boost Posted June 21, 2007 Report Posted June 21, 2007 Wow 338K is spectacular on the original auto tranny! Quote
Michele Posted June 21, 2007 Author Report Posted June 21, 2007 yeah, its all original... and she'll be back on the road in a few weeks Quote
ns87 Posted June 21, 2007 Report Posted June 21, 2007 well hey, the transmission had a good run Quote
Euro Posted June 21, 2007 Report Posted June 21, 2007 damn!!! I was wondering where you went. 338k on the trans is unbelievable. Quote
Andrew Posted June 21, 2007 Report Posted June 21, 2007 yep, the inevitable finally happened. geesh you had a good run. glad to see that you are gonna fix her up. Quote
mfewtrail Posted June 21, 2007 Report Posted June 21, 2007 338K = it was due for a transaxle failure. Definitely got your money's worth out of that one. Quote
slick Posted June 21, 2007 Report Posted June 21, 2007 Thats a good amount of miles. Depending if your wanting any performance out if it or not, I'd consider swapping up to 3.73 gearing. Quote
Brian P Posted June 21, 2007 Report Posted June 21, 2007 You busted the reverse reaction drum, which is common, but usually happens much earlier. When that breaks, you'll have 1st gear only. I destroyed mine when the trans had about 130k on it. Quote
pwmin Posted June 21, 2007 Report Posted June 21, 2007 at least it didnt happen on the way down there. Quote
19Cutlass94 Posted June 21, 2007 Report Posted June 21, 2007 Well I guess you cant really complain at all... Quote
Crazy K Posted June 22, 2007 Report Posted June 22, 2007 I'm tempted to ponder... whether you could drive in first gear up to about 30mph. then shift into D or OD and still have third and fourth gear! My 91 vert had no third, but I could manually drive in 2nd, shift into OD over 50 mph, and it would upshift twice and I'd still have 4th. GM's are fun like that!!!! Quote
Z34-5speed Posted June 22, 2007 Report Posted June 22, 2007 You should mount that tranny on the wall!!! Quote
rockfangd Posted June 23, 2007 Report Posted June 23, 2007 You should mount that tranny on the wall!!! x2. That happens to maybe one in a thousand to last that long. Quote
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