Hi all, My zeds auto has been on the way out for a while now, and it has been sitting in the shed for months. I try to take it out for a quick drive every so often to keep everything else in running order. Yesterday I decided to take it to the car wash, as sitting in the shed for 2 months it had accumulated an inch of dust. I reversed out of the shed and drove there, with the usual whines ect. coming from the slushbox but when I got there and tried to reverse, it was gone. It can't rev freely while in reverse, just revs to about 2k rpm and sits there, doesn't squat. My question is: will I damage anything else if I continue to take it for a quick drive occasionally? I plan on converting to manual in the future and have the conversion gear, and the auto is too far gone to care about damaging it any further, I just don't want do damage anything else. Cheers, Jordan.
gearbox is toast anyway, whats the worst that can happen.......just make sure you dont loose all gears in the middle of no where and get stranded lol.....
You could possibly overrev the engine if the gearbox disconnects at the wrong time. Otherwise, you could get stuck in the middle of a busy intersection or stranded at an awkward place and get smashed into. Most likely it will just die on you and you have to pay for a tow.
rev in nuetral, drop into drive while revving = should equal super fun happy time skids, or a dead gearbox
hehe, well you may damage the torque converter. If the car just stalls up when you are in reverse, then maybe you have a transbrake type effect happening, whereby you are in 1st and reverse at the same time. This way the engine comes under load, but you don't go anywhere.
