[jacsil]

After much prodding I was able to get a more complete picture from my daughter who was driving the car both when the transmission line burst and last week when it started slipping.

My daughter was driving up a grade and stopped at several stop signs. When pulling away from about the 4th stop sign the tranny started to slip. Origionally I thought that she was driving along and all of a sudden the car wouldnt go anywhere just revving as if it was in neutral. Instead it started out from the stop and then the trans started slipping. The car would still go forward up the hill but the engine would rev high as the transmission was slipping. She continued on for a few hundred feet (about) and it was up hill. She stopped the car, and since then nothing at all. It does feel like its trying to go forward but its as if the brakes are on.

After this I spoke with the people at ericksons one more time about my transmission. Since I wanted to avoid the expense of rebuild if possible, I asked them a few times about the stuck valve possiblity. The responce was always the same. "forward clutch".

Ericsons said that when comming to a stop the valves will sometimes stick open. one person at erickson asked how fast she was going before comming to a stop. he mentioned that the 4-3 valve would be the usual culprit but she would have needed to get up to 40 mph before comming to a stop. Which she wasnt. 30 would have been really going fast between these two stop signs. I know as I tried.

Based on what happened when the tranny went dead and the fact that about 1 month earlier it had lost a lot of fluid when the transmission line burst. Erickson's, 3 calls and 1 email later , keep saying the same thing its the forward clutch. I even mentioned that it still has reverse. There take is probably damaged when it lost fluid. and that sped up the end of life failure.

I had the car towed to Italian imports in San Carlos California. They are going to do a full inspection before they send they take the tranny out and send it off to be rebuilt. I really dont want to spend more than I have to. Again from what my daughter told me the transmission was actually slipping and the car kept moving forward under its own power albiet with the engine revving very high.

I did contact the transmission company up in washington but kevin who I left a message for did not call me back. So the 91 rebuilt transmission they have is still there.