[ExtrmZ]

sounds like you should have gotten a little bit of a better deal on that car.. quite a few probs.. good luck with the project!

[J. Rhapsody]

Manually shifting an A4LD goes as follows 1-2-1-3-4 IIRC

[Amscray88kr]

haha no its not a project. its just an old daily driver. it needs things. it not like i got it off the lot im the 4th owner and it only had 70k on it id say thats pretty good.

i dunno why youre telling me that jax. cool thanks i guess?

cars running good. gutted the entire intake from air silencer removal to the TB. K&N is in the mail. Im workin on a custom pipe from airbox to TB. we will see how mpg is affected i know this past week ive been hard on the gas so ill check out mpg on my trip to richmond this weekend.

love my stang.

[J. Rhapsody]

Cause you said you manually shifted the car and it kinda fell off or something. If your one of those people who like to manually shift automatics, I was just telling you to get to 3rd you gotta go back to 1st for some reason.

[Amscray88kr]

someone was telling me to shift thru the gears to get everything oiled before driving since i was having trans issues

which i have now (dun dun dun dunnnn)fixed

my vacumm modulator(rrrrrrr) was bad. draining all my trans fluid into the engine/intake. 3 qrts in a month pumped into my engine/intake. and the problems i was having before came back. so i got that fixed from my dads good friends at haymarket motors in gainesville. theyll have your car for like a week but they get the job done cheap. they had mine for two days.

but once thats fixed i hope everything runs alittle smoother. and my trans will shift better and all kinds of good stuff.

guess the guy knew about it before he sold it. and i assume ill be finding out alot more little things here and there. that he "fixed"

oh well. i love my car. i got a k&n air filter for it and gutted the intake. but i might make one out of exhaust tubing soon to improve my intake of air alittle bit and let her breathe better. goin for mpg here. i know its slow.

[F1aReD]

Originally Posted by Amscray88kr

someone was telling me to shift thru the gears to get everything oiled before driving since i was having trans issues

which i have now (dun dun dun dunnnn)fixed

my vacumm modulator(rrrrrrr) was bad. draining all my trans fluid into the engine/intake. 3 qrts in a month pumped into my engine/intake. and the problems i was having before came back. so i got that fixed from my dads good friends at haymarket motors in gainesville. theyll have your car for like a week but they get the job done cheap. they had mine for two days.

but once thats fixed i hope everything runs alittle smoother. and my trans will shift better and all kinds of good stuff.

guess the guy knew about it before he sold it. and i assume ill be finding out alot more little things here and there. that he "fixed"

oh well. i love my car. i got a k&n air filter for it and gutted the intake. but i might make one out of exhaust tubing soon to improve my intake of air alittle bit and let her breathe better. goin for mpg here. i know its slow.

Wow, I didn't even think this was a common problem on these 2.3 mustangs! I don't wanna jack your thread but if you look at my post "would you ever.." that mustang had the same problem now it doesnt shift

[Amscray88kr]

Apparently. So now it runs better, idles smoother and shifts are 100% better. I was wondering where all my trans fluid went when the bottom of my car is so clean. i was scratching my head...so theres no leak but the fluid is gone? it got pumped into the engine and intake blowing dark smoke out of the exhaust on occasion. i put alittle trans fluid in, let it run for a bit then checked the engine oil and if had red fluid all in it. So i knew thats what the problem was.

so if your pony is shiftin funny,it may be a good idea to check it out.

love my k&n.
cars running pretty great right now.
fixed blown icm and blown trans vac mod.
so now i suppose ill get some new brakes and shocks

my front right rotor is warped and scored. it has a huge line dug in all the way around. makes braking at any speed interesting. also shocks/struts are really worn. i bottomed out in a driveway and i wasnt even coming at it too fast.

man i need a new job. that $0.25 raise i just got isnt gonna do much for my brake/suspension issues. thanks lame company