Re: IML: 61 Transmission Gave Up The Ghost
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Re: IML: 61 Transmission Gave Up The Ghost



It might be worth Looking behind the push buttons , to check if the cable
has come adrift from where it connects etc. There should be 2 screws that
holds the mounting bracket in place, the cable is fitted via a stud & eye
type of fitting.
Regards
Dave
England.
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From: <RandalPark@xxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 1:19 AM
Subject: RE: IML: 61 Transmission Gave Up The Ghost


> The fluid would probably be burned if the automatic totally failed. It
would be very dark or black, and smell really bad. If the fluid is still
clean, and the car wasn't giving prior symtoms, I suspect something has come
undone or snapped.
>
> Did the push button feel right? Sometimes these can come off of their
respective levers.
>
> Paul
>
> In an email dated 5/4/2005 9:31:58 pm GMT Daylight time, "Rob P"
<fristpenny@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> >Sounds more like the shifter than the trans. Even when they are almost
> >completely dead the trans will usually cause *some* change-lower idle,
> >whine, etc. I would check the shift button is engaging. Good luck.
> >
> >>From: "John/Shirley Nimmo" <SDARM2@xxxxxxx>
> >>Reply-To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>To: "Imperialclubmailinglist" <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>Subject: IML: 61 Transmission Gave Up The Ghost
> >>Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 11:54:28 -0700
> >>
> >>Hi Imler's;
> >>
> >>I hope everybody is doing great today. Well, I've got kind of
> >>a dilema on my hands and maybe somebody out there can help me
> >>with on my 61 Imperial.
> >>
> >>Today I had to put my daily driver in the shop and when I got home, I
was
> >>going
> >>to drive my 61 up to the store. When I started up the car and backed it
out
> >>of the driveway and then put the car into drive there was no clunk with
the
> >>gears that you always hear and the car wouldn't move. I then when I put
it
> >>into
> >>reverse and I didn't hear any clunk and it wouldn't move. I checked the
> >>trans
> >>fluid to make sure it wasn't low and it was right at the full mark. Now
the
> >>car
> >>is stuck out in the middle of the street in front of my house. The car
is
> >>just too
> >>heavy to push by myself, so I'll have to wait until some neighbors come
> >>home
> >>to help me push it back into the garage. Unfortunately, my driveway is
one
> >>of
> >>those to where the house sits up on a slight hill with the street below
it.
> >>
> >>Any help or suggestions from anybody out there would be greatly
> >>appreciated.
> >>
> >>
> >> Sincerely,
> >>
> >> John Nimmo
> >>
> >> 1961 Chrysler Imperial 4 door hardtopGet
> >>more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
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