Hi,
I seem to have had a problem where by i drove about 20 km's and then
went to pull away from a set of traffic lights and the car accelerated
and become somewhat stuck in 1st gear. After i took my foot off the
accelerator and re applied it it was staying in 1st gear and (really
sending the revs up as i gained speed)

I then stopped the car and took off again this time accelerating
through 1st and to 2nd fine.. then the transmission then seemed to
slip and the the revs go up once again with loss of power as a
result.. i then pulled over and stopped the car completely for around
5 minutes and then started it up again and was able to limp my way
with the transmission continually slipping in whatever gear it was in
at the time.

when i pulled out the dipstick for the transmission fluid everything
was normal (levels seemed normal) but there seemed to be a ever so
slight burnt smell to the fluid.

What would the problem be? I suspect the transmission is gone but I'm
opening up the discussion to the experts here in this group.

Its a Subaru Liberty 1992 GX model with a 4 speed automatic
transmission
its done over 120,000 KMs.

On May 15, 10:07 pm, Par...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
> I seem to have had a problem where by i drove about 20 km's and then
> went to pull away from a set of traffic lights and the car accelerated
> and become somewhat stuck in 1st gear. After i took my foot off the
> accelerator and re applied it it was staying in 1st gear and (really
> sending the revs up as i gained speed)
>
> I then stopped the car and took off again this time accelerating
> through 1st and to 2nd fine.. then thetransmissionthen seemed to
> slip and the the revs go up once again with loss of power as a
> result.. i then pulled over and stopped the car completely for around
> 5 minutes and then started it up again and was able to limp my way
> with thetransmissioncontinuallyslippingin whatever gear it was in
> at the time.
>
> when i pulled out the dipstick for thetransmissionfluid everything
> was normal (levels seemed normal) but there seemed to be a ever so
> slight burnt smell to the fluid.
>
> What would the problem be? I suspect thetransmissionis gone but I'm
> opening up the discussion to the experts here in this group.
>
> Its a Subaru Liberty1992GX model with a 4 speed automatictransmission
> its done over 120,000 KMs.

after cooling the transmission fluids were lower than expected.. this
was the problem and the solution was to top up the fluid.

Really really should have the transmission flushed now that it has burnt
ATF. This stuff is bad and you can expect more problems down the road if
you decide to leave it in there.