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Originally Posted By: Gary Allan Except for alleged "velvety smooth shifts" ..no one has yet to give me one good reason why any contemporary trans carries such complexity over it's substantially more durable and reliable predecessors. Granted I've never rebuilt another automatic, but as far...

Bringing this back for an update. I managed to do the transmission rebuild and it was not terribly difficult- just alot of parts and lots of fluid everywhere. Tonight I got the car together enough to go for a road test and after the controller finished "learning" that it had new clutch packs...

Thanks for the suggestions. I'll make sure I get to all the springs and pistons. And thanks Tom for the suggestions on the PVC pipe and tools! I never would have thought of that and was considering buying the tools. That'll save me a couple hundred bucks there. I'm still doing research, and I...

Hi all My dad's old commuter, a '95 Chrysler Cirrus LXi recently had its transmission puke (150k miles.) Reverse it toast but it runs like a champ going forward. He gave me the car to do what I want with it and I'm taking the opportunity to learn more about automatics by attempting a rebuild...

I was just under the sister-in-laws 2005 Legacy GT this weekend diagnosing a clunking in the front end. The control arm bushings are totally shot at 65k miles. I got a call from her yesterday and Subaru is not honoring thier own extended warranty to fix the problem. They want $800 to fix it...

I'm right there with you- but this that isn't what sells. We have a saying around our company, "Companies that always look to the past never progress into the future." It sucks that true enthusiasts are in the minority. Look at Toyota's success. They haven't made a single interesting car...

You guys should see what the do to cars on durability test tracks. They beat cars harder than any average owner could ever dish out. Hitting normal speed bumps and what you guys think is too fast isn't going to do anything. We've had elevated crosswalks (Like long speed bumps) and large...

I'm sure he was doing JUST fine salary-wise at Toyota. Why did Mulally leave Boeing for Ford? Both are American companies. I *DO* believe ALL CEO's leave for money on some level, but I'm willing to bet taking on a new challenge was the big contributor to the move. Toyota can only do so well in...

And even with 15psi of boost and 300hp that Volvo engine is going to go to 250k miles with hardly a blip. Volvo has been turbocharging for over 30 years, Honda has been at it in the US for less than a year. Any comparison by engine displacement and horsepower is going going to tell 1% of the...

Actually ALOT! There wasn't any kind of side-impact protection standard until 1997. There rollover standards were tightened up about 10 years ago, and they're pushing to tighten them up again. In 1995 they started testing offset frontal crash tests and most cars didn't do well in those tests...

They have to compete with the A3 and the other small German hatches that have gobs of horsepower. Apparently Volvo puts the diesel 5-cylinder in the C30 in Europe. There are diesels available in Europe for the competitors- which is irritating. Ford even said they have no plans for diesels in ANY...

Iiiiinteresting. Thanks for the info. I've seen the low-pressure switches on every auto A/C I've ever worked on, but never knew it could double as a sensor for the evaporator. I'll watch for that! Come to think of it though, the Jag's low-pressure switch works fine (as the pressure gets low...

I wonder how those fins are going to hold on with hot tack-welds at 100k rpm? Maybe he'll do the same on the turbine side, just as an experiment... We can only hope

Understatement of the YEAR! I think it's exponential, maybe even logarithmic...!

This is what cracks me up about ALL car owners, no matter what make, model, year, where its built, whatever... "I didn't have any trouble with it except this, and that, and those things, and that doo-hicky, and a complete engine failure, two fires and one flat tire... But otherwise it was...

I'm not positive but I think that switch is only if there is condensation in the actual A/C line that has frozen.. The system would never know if the outside of the evaporator has frozen from the condensation it is extracting. If its still under warranty the manufacturer may have a fix for...

Your evaporator is icing up. My old Jag does this pretty often and has the same symptoms. The hot outside air passes over a radiator-like device in the air box under the dash. When run continuously in a relatively humid climate, the evaporator gets so cold that the condensation freezes up in the...

Looking at the interior photos, my irritation with the interiors of asian-branded cars is renewed. I don't care how functional or how high of quality the interiors are, they're just flat-out weird and uninviting. Just like the new Civic, you look at the pictures of the dashboard and you can't...

HEY! That's one of my Fedex trucks. I did the chassis design and exhaust system on those trucks. That's a pre-2007 chassis. We had to get really wild in with the new 2007 emissions laws on those shorties... Triples are legal in certain states. They're not allowed in Washington and I belive not...