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Jim Grant's Tech Tips
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Dodge Caravan, Shiftless and Brakeless
Q: Our 1990 Dodge Caravan has 115,000 miles.
Lately when we start it up and put it into reverse we occasionally have
trouble getting the gear. After a few seconds and possibly by reshifting,
we could get it to go.
The other day I had an experience that made me consider that it might
not be the transmission. Starting it up, after it had been sitting for
an hour or so, I could not get ANY gear to engage. There were two oddities
I noticed: 1 When the accelerator was depressed, it moved with normal
pressure but there was NO ENGINE REVVING. It was the first time that this
problem was this obvious. 2 The brake pedal was rock hard.
I shut the engine off and restarted it, and the brake returned to normal
pressure; I was able to engage a gear. The only thing that didn't make
sense was that all these incidents would occur with a cold engine, not
hot. Any ideas?
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