So I fired on the car, and it warmed up and I threw it on drive drove off. Not even 20 feet when under the radio, like where the tranny sits, it sounded like something fell and i ran over it or something like that.....something was scraping!

The whole car was shaking and then cut off! Tried to turn it back on and it turned on a few times but the only way it stayed on was when i held the gas down but then as i reving the car, i got to 4 grand and it did the same thing..sounded liek something was scraping and died.

I checked behind me for fluids on the ground, nothing. Looked under the car, couldnt tell anything had happened. Under the hood, looks liek all my belts are there. I left the car in a parking lot, please tell me what happened!

1987 GXL A/T

Thanks, Prodigy

 

Was you reving the engine cold?

If it was cold, I would bet either carbon stuck in the Apex seal and that the noise of the seal/s scraping on the housings.

Just a guess!

Good luck.

 

was it in the transmission or the engine?

 

why would his Automatic cause his engine to not run?

 

^well for 1 it is pretty hard to read his post let alone be able to tell it was an automatic.

 

You have "drive" on your standard tranny?

 

^^^^hahahhaa

 

I'm trying to get a clear picture so we can figure it out:
My wild stab in the dark: something is jammed in the auto tranny (torque converter) and it won't let the motor spin?? That's why i ask questions so I don't give a dumbass guess. Let's wait for more details.

 

maybe something is wrong with your torque converter.

 

the thing is that most people here want a good answer without giving decent information. Here is one of my posts as an example of how I think questions should be posed:

https://www.rx7club.com/showpost.php...17&postcount=1

From the get-go you have all the details, what I did to help MYSELF and what my CURRENT problem IS. Also notice the thread title. Help us help you.

I think with a little help we can beat the noobs into doing this more often. Tough love suck, for you, but it works.

 

 

Could be an apex seal shattered and the noise it made just sounded like it came from under the radio.

 

Well maybe if it was a properly worded sentance I would have caught that...

 

reasonable answer^^^

 

he says it an automatic unless he edited it

 

Sounds like apex carnage to me. That's how mine sounded. The most awful thing you don't want to hear while driving your 7...

 

Hey so I'm eating lunch and I start browsing the rx7club forums, then I go back to my lunch and my 2nd chopstick isn't there. I think maybe I dropped it, but I don't see it on the floor. Where is it?

I know it's hard to see what's going on, but please look around, experiment and post more details if you want people to help you.

 

check up your butt.

 

Nope, not there. I checked deep too.

Prodigy: Put your car in neutral, start it. If it sounds bad turn it off. If it sounds fine rev it a bit and then see how it sounds. Then tell us what happens. That will at least tell us whether it's the engine or the drivetrain.

 

nose is my next guess, but wash your hands first. Now we kill time until prodigy comes back.

 

Sup people! Thank you all for all the advice, so I just finally got it towed to my buddies house and im going to go pick up a 5 speed tranny to swap it out! I'll get back to all you when Im about to do the swap- prodigy

 

Make sure the engine has good compression before you go to all the trouble. You can spend 15 bucks on a piston compression tester and get a good idea on the state of the engine.