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This has been a bad week for my house of cars, 4 out of 5 have been to the shop for repairs including the Cougar which broke today and is currently parked at my local fix it shop. This is how it all began. I was driving the car in order to burn off a few gallons of gas due to it leaking out because I was parked on a hill, (rear end pointing down hill). I normally check my trans fluid before I drive because I know I have a leak at my linkage connections but this time I did not.
I figured I'd drive 10 to 15 miles on some nearby back roads where I could open it up. After about 20 minutes of hard driving I noticed that my exhaust sounded like I had a leak at the manifold connection. No problem I thought I'll just take it to the shop tomorrow and get it fixed there's time for one last burnout before heading home. I do the burnout and get back on the road; about a mile from home I have one last stretch of open road that I can hit no less than 70 mph on so I punch it. I'm looking at the speedo as it hits 20, 30, 40, and then all of a sudden I hear and feel a BANG right next to my foot. It was so violent that the faceplate on my radio popped off and I suddenly was no longer accelerating but simply coasting.
I pull into a closed down strip mall parking lot and into a parking space, engine still running. I tried all the gears but had none, a quick look under the hood and car showed no visible signs of any damage that I could see. The trans still holds the car still in park. My questions, what did I possibly break, the transmission, shift linkage or something more serious? And lastly, could it have been a result of not having enough fluid in the trans?
Hopefully it's not too serious but if I did break my trans I'll definitely be dropping in a new AOD one, I'm tired of 13 mpg and only having 3 speeds.
I figured I'd drive 10 to 15 miles on some nearby back roads where I could open it up. After about 20 minutes of hard driving I noticed that my exhaust sounded like I had a leak at the manifold connection. No problem I thought I'll just take it to the shop tomorrow and get it fixed there's time for one last burnout before heading home. I do the burnout and get back on the road; about a mile from home I have one last stretch of open road that I can hit no less than 70 mph on so I punch it. I'm looking at the speedo as it hits 20, 30, 40, and then all of a sudden I hear and feel a BANG right next to my foot. It was so violent that the faceplate on my radio popped off and I suddenly was no longer accelerating but simply coasting.
I pull into a closed down strip mall parking lot and into a parking space, engine still running. I tried all the gears but had none, a quick look under the hood and car showed no visible signs of any damage that I could see. The trans still holds the car still in park. My questions, what did I possibly break, the transmission, shift linkage or something more serious? And lastly, could it have been a result of not having enough fluid in the trans?
Hopefully it's not too serious but if I did break my trans I'll definitely be dropping in a new AOD one, I'm tired of 13 mpg and only having 3 speeds.