Hey, my friend drives a del sol, he was coming back to VT this weekend - drove his car like 300 miles to get here, as soon as he got into the parking lot the car won't go into gear. It's an auto tranny, 133k miles on the car. I haven't looked at it yet, to me it sounds like a vaccuum leak of some kind. I'm not really good with auto trannies, but I guess if when we go to move his car and there's a pool of tranny oil then we'll know its a hose problem. Can anyone think of anything else it might be?

 

I really doubt its a vacuum leak.

By not going into gear, do you mean the shifter is "stuck" or while in Drive, nothing happens?

 

i am gonna have to go ahead and agree with you on that one......

 

is the shifter in park?.......or would it not go into any gear when he was in Drive and tried to shift it to park, if its in park and it wont move from park, i would take apart the shifter and look at the mechanism, they can get stuck sometimes, or his brake release lever might be malfunctioning as well......

 

when its in drive, it still doesn't engage.

i still haven't seen it for myself, but he said he just went to move his car and he got it to go but it will only go like 1mph

 

Has your friend checked the fluid? Any leaks? Does it go and engage in Reverse normally? Manually shifting into 2 or 3, same problem?

Double check that the emer. brake isnt dragging also. During the road trip, probably got some crap in the valve body of the tranny. Get it flushed at a tranny shop, to start with.