Re: auto trans upshift delay & ac cutoff

[Orin Eman <orin@WOLFENET.com>]

> About a week after though, I'm having problems with the auto tranny.
> When I first start it up, it doesn't want to upshift. 1-2 or 2-3 won't
> upshift unless I really accelerate and then once it finally does, it's
> usually fine until I park it overnight. Otherwise shift points seem to
> be pretty solid and positive. Any ideas, anyone??

Check your ATF and the diff fluid immediately.  Hopefully you only
have dirty ATF and they fluids haven't started mixing.

Funny, but I just rented a U-Haul that 2nd gear seemed to be AWOL.
Wouldn't change up unless I almost took my foot off the gas then
no power and changed down if I wasn't very gentle on the gas.
Seemed to be switching between first and third.  Then there was
the front end shimmy and very abnormally worn tire at the front.
And for good luck, the radio quit on the way home...

> Also, ac worked fine but noticed it cuts off when I heavy accelerate. Is
> there a switch or something that controls this or might it be related to
> the tranny thing? Checked the ac relay in fusepanel under hood and it
> seems to be working properly. Hotwired the ac clutch and it kicks in and
> compressor blows real cold almost instantly. Any help, much appreciated.

Absolutely completely normal.  There is a switch under the gas pedal
that cuts the AC out at full throttle.

Orin.