Car dieing additinal info.

[David Cooley]

Roger,
The 700R4 trannies have a habit of the TCC solenoid goingbad, and the TCC 
clutches in the convertors going if locked under WOT conditions...  Sounds 
like the problem with the lug and possibly the dying.


At 08:41 AM 8/11/1999 -0500, you wrote:



>Here is what it did this morning (I did get it recorded on diacom, so
>I will need to look at things very carefully tonight).
>
>It appeared that either the TCC failed to unlock or that the car
>failed to downshift on acceleration out of a curve.   The engine
>lugged at <2000rpm, with a TPS of over 60%, so it should have easily
>have downshifted/unlocked  I had noticed what I thought was similar
>events in the recent past, but I had not been sure what I saw.
>
>The IAC appears to have been somewhat lazy, cleaning the old one may
>have helped the situation, putting the new one in did seem to help,
>though it still dies when I put it in gear, which may point to the TCC
>having some problem or one of the clutch packs causing extra drag on
>the engine.   This happened after I was racing so I may have fired the
>tranny.  And the tranny is the original one and has 123k miles.
>
>                         Roger

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