car cuts off.......why

[russ_512]

so as some of yall know i just got my 89 lxi running this past sunday and its been running fine.....untill now. when im driving it runs fine its when i stop it cuts off. its on auto so im not stallin lol. it cuts off so smooth to i dont even notice it. at first it was when i come to a complete stop now its when i slow down now. i was going around a turn at like 10 and it just cut off the only reason i noticed is cause the power stearing went away....

my car has been idling around .75 and it would shake real bad then i set the idle to 1 and the shaking stopped and the it started cuttin off around turns

and i just put in a radio and everything on the car works


help.....

[jasonrebellion]

maybe try adjusting your tranny cable

[2oodoor]

good suggestion, anytime you change the throttle stop you should check the tranny cable too because it directly affects it. It would have to be pretty far of to stall out the car though, maybe stuck or hung, binding...

[russ_512]

now i got a bigger problem......

i took my car on interstate and did go over 80
it ran so good and when i started to come home the transmission wouldnt catch.
i had trouble do 35 near my house

[jasonrebellion]

that points towards the cable even more....if I lived closer, I'd come look at it....but I live in the Gaffney/ Spartanburg area.

[russ_512]

well i will check the cable out an we should meet one day im like 5 from the airport

[jasonrebellion]

from GSP? I thought you lived in Columbia?

[russ_512]

uh...whats GSP lol

west columbia.... ever heard of south congaree?

[jasonrebellion]

ooohhhh.... gsp is the greenville spartanburg airport

[russ_512]

o didnt know that one existed lol

im down from the metropolitan i think

i work at UPS ground hub with is like 5 mins as well

[2oodoor]

lexington?

[russ_512]

no the ground hub in west columbia...it the main place where all the packages come to sc and shippin in sc and where all the ones in sc leave sc

the airhub is right around the corner

[2oodoor]

I may be that way later in the week if you are stuck

[russ_512]

yea if your out this way let me know we could meet up.

[russ_512]

yea so i just took the car out for a drive and it drove perfectly fine

i did notice the motor gets really hot the temp is in the middle but when you lift the hood it is really hot, you dont even have to get close to feel it...

two hours after i drove it, it was still hot

[Vanilla Sky]

Your transmission is getting ready to die. The only thing you can really do at this point is put in a cooler and see if that helps. Changing fluid may cause it to stop working completely. I had this same sort of thing happen to one of my cars, happened just north of Atlanta on my way back from moving a friend to SC.