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[ScottyCBoy at aol.com]

In a message dated 11/24/03 9:40:19 AM Central Standard Time, 
apowell at gocougs.wsu.edu writes:


> Gary Brown <ovalking at yahoo.com> asked...
> 
> >it sometimes does not want to shift out of 1st gear.
> 
> Is there any pattern?
> I've experienced this about 3 of times (in the last 10
> years!) and each occasion was just after I'd topped up
> the ATF and it was cold. Not investigated any further
> as it's been fine for ages.
> 

Same thing happened to an old 5000 I had. When cold it would stick in first 
gear until readline. It lasted about 2-4 miles every morning. It did it real 
bad when it was really cold. I cleaned the valve body and that would cure it for 
a few thousand miles. I even removed some of the 1st gear pistons and lightly 
sanded them with real fine sandpaper. That seemed to have fixed the problem 
as it worked well after I sold it.

Scott