RE: IML: 61 Transmission Gave Up The Ghost

["Rob P" <fristpenny@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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>
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> 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 
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