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Engine or Trans help!!! near red-line rpms @ highway cruise (65)
« on: April 29, 2006, 05:29:41 PM »

 This happened in my parents' Mazda Millenia.

My mom says that at low speeds, the engine and trans works perfectly fine, but now when she goes high speed (sounds about 50+)

the engine will rev very high (way more than normal crusie @ 65) and she says it feels like the transmission doesn't shift into the last gear (due to the high engine revs) near the red line, which we know isn't too good.

I'm here in NYC and she's out of state right now, so i can't hop over to look at the car. But even if i could i wouldn't really know what to look for/begin.

I thought maybe it was a loose connector, b/c she says that the Check engine Light is on.

a trans problem shouldn't trip that, from what I know
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Re: Engine or Trans help!!! near red-line rpms @ highway cruise (65)
« Reply #1 on: April 29, 2006, 07:05:43 PM »

Check the fluid  Grin

I am guessing that has already been done but it never hurst to post the obvious.  After that, find out when the last time the tranny filter was changed, if it is clogged it could definitly cause that problem.
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Re: Engine or Trans help!!! near red-line rpms @ highway cruise (65)
« Reply #2 on: April 29, 2006, 09:30:11 PM »

Yeah, tranny fluid may need a flush or may need to add more and may have a leak...ok nykon ..what's with everything having to do with a fluid??..but then again....
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Re: Engine or Trans help!!! near red-line rpms @ highway cruise (65)
« Reply #3 on: April 30, 2006, 05:56:58 AM »

I drink a LOT of water, fluids are all I can think about...

I have to pee...
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Re: Engine or Trans help!!! near red-line rpms @ highway cruise (65)
« Reply #4 on: April 30, 2006, 06:07:58 AM »

wait, you want me to pee into the transmission? But if my urine is red..... :EEEEK!!!!:

anyway, gonna check it all out tomorrow. I'm here, my mom is in CT, so I'm driving out and will check that stuff before going to the shop. last thing we need are more bills Sad
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Re: Engine or Trans help!!! near red-line rpms @ highway cruise (65)
« Reply #5 on: April 30, 2006, 09:22:27 AM »

O thanks nykon...now you gave one of our members His/her pees.
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Re: Engine or Trans help!!! near red-line rpms @ highway cruise (65)
« Reply #6 on: April 30, 2006, 03:01:57 PM »

If it feels like the tranny isn't hitting the last gear, sounds like it could also be the torque converter.

But definately a transmission flush and fill

NOTE: It took me about 5 minutes to type that little bit of stuff.....I had a nice 16 hour workday on saturday/night (all overtime....I need sleep Shocked).
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Re: Engine or Trans help!!! near red-line rpms @ highway cruise (65)
« Reply #7 on: May 02, 2006, 05:00:53 AM »

kikazz, how many girsl do you know named Doug? :confused: (please say none)

anywho, I test drove it this weekend, and it would rev up going 20 mph straight, so yeah, something wierd is going on. It's at a shop, and hasn't really been looked at yet, so we don't know what's going on. I'll keep you all updated.
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Re: Engine or Trans help!!! near red-line rpms @ highway cruise (65)
« Reply #8 on: May 02, 2006, 01:36:24 PM »

actually i know about three..and they're all hahah im just kiddin ya . I wanted to make sure it was understood that I was playing on words...guess it didnt come across how I had planned....
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Re: Engine or Trans help!!! near red-line rpms @ highway cruise (65)
« Reply #9 on: May 02, 2006, 07:45:56 PM »

i'd poke around here a bit.. http://forums.mazdaworld.org/
looks like they  have a decent amount of info.
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Re: Engine or Trans help!!! near red-line rpms @ highway cruise (65)
« Reply #10 on: May 03, 2006, 01:03:15 PM »

thanks downer, but the shop said something inside the trans is leaking/broke.

*sigh* this car has been nothing but pain for my parents since they got it :/
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« Reply #11 on: May 03, 2006, 04:15:27 PM »

Another good deed done..Im proud of myself..I'm getting better at this..
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Re: Engine or Trans help!!! near red-line rpms @ highway cruise (65)
« Reply #12 on: May 06, 2006, 05:49:15 AM »

the samething happened to a good friend of mine, he has a 97 monte carlo, and often times on the highway it would not shift, he changed the tranny fluid and filter and it worked fine for about six months-but now it's dead-if you haven't tryed it yet it's worth a shot.........
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Re: Engine or Trans help!!! near red-line rpms @ highway cruise (65)
« Reply #13 on: May 06, 2006, 04:48:20 PM »

If your transmission has high mileage and has never been flushed, you might as well just leave it alone. The dirt in the fluid is the only thing holding it together!
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Re: Engine or Trans help!!! near red-line rpms @ highway cruise (65)
« Reply #14 on: May 06, 2006, 09:03:44 PM »

high mileage? No, I think it has around 60K on it!!! they rarely use it. they have a beater honda accord from 1989 to putz around in. Now that thing is rusting, has been in unknown accidents, had the cable wire for the clutch get BURNT and CUT by RADIATOR FLUID (I know this as I was driving uphill when it happened), etc.

and it's running strong (uh, after the ENTIRE exhaust rotted out and fell off the car from engine block to tail pipe, ahahahahahahah :lol: ) Why she still runs? NO IDEA
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