Old Iron
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- Jun 18, 2009
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This 1992 245 is having issues at start up, car starts right up and idles properly. However once I pull out into the road and begin to drive the car doesn't shift normally! This only happens in the moring when the car has sat all night or after it's been sitting for a couple hours and it has had a chance to fully cool down!
The engine and trans were yanked 20,000 miles ago, for routine maintenance! Seals and gaskets were all completely replaced on both engine and transmission as preventative maintenance! Car has 320,000 on original engine and trans. Volvo master tech checked the transmission internals and approved for reassembly! Had no issues with the car for 9 months! Then this fall when it began to get really cold out I started noticing the tranny was taking a while to warm up! I had already replaced the over drive solenoid at this point so I knew I could rule that out!
Car runs absolutely perfect to my knowledge after the tranny warms up! It doesn't matter if I warm the car up for 5 or 15 minutes, it still takes driving down the road to to get the tranny to spring to life! I drained and replaced some tranny fluid with the same stuff the mechanic used, no change there!
Want to know if you guys have experienced this before, if it will be something I will just have to live with! Also, brought the car to a second Volvo master tech out in Easton MD, he said he didn't work on transmissions and that he would send it out! Throttle cable is also new, rule that out!
Fluid level is good!
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The issue is that the car is failing to up shift, very similar to the way it would act if the OD selenoid was not functioning! It does this for at least a mile or two, I got courageous the last couple of days, and if I stomp on the gas and raise the rpm's up to 4k/4.5k it goes away shortly after starting to drive! But I don't want to keep on doing that to the car!
The engine and trans were yanked 20,000 miles ago, for routine maintenance! Seals and gaskets were all completely replaced on both engine and transmission as preventative maintenance! Car has 320,000 on original engine and trans. Volvo master tech checked the transmission internals and approved for reassembly! Had no issues with the car for 9 months! Then this fall when it began to get really cold out I started noticing the tranny was taking a while to warm up! I had already replaced the over drive solenoid at this point so I knew I could rule that out!
Car runs absolutely perfect to my knowledge after the tranny warms up! It doesn't matter if I warm the car up for 5 or 15 minutes, it still takes driving down the road to to get the tranny to spring to life! I drained and replaced some tranny fluid with the same stuff the mechanic used, no change there!
Want to know if you guys have experienced this before, if it will be something I will just have to live with! Also, brought the car to a second Volvo master tech out in Easton MD, he said he didn't work on transmissions and that he would send it out! Throttle cable is also new, rule that out!
Fluid level is good!
Edit:
The issue is that the car is failing to up shift, very similar to the way it would act if the OD selenoid was not functioning! It does this for at least a mile or two, I got courageous the last couple of days, and if I stomp on the gas and raise the rpm's up to 4k/4.5k it goes away shortly after starting to drive! But I don't want to keep on doing that to the car!
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