klutzki

Alright--One filter and eight oz (!) of fluid later, everything is working smoothly. Saint Dextron protect us from the unholy drip. Thanks! Klutzki

The valve was easy to fish out with a magnet. I putzed around for hours trying to get the parking rod to engage, and the only way I could get things to work was to put it in the park position, then get the manual lever entirely into the opening and slide the end onto the parking rod, and then to push the whole thing into the parking pawl so the spring on the end of the rod compressed enough to pivot the manual lever down. Damn thing fell on my face a dozen times before I got it. I'm guessing it was designed to be assembled with the valve body removed, but this worked for me. Tomorrow I'm gonna get a new filter and fluid, and hopefully that'll be the end of my troubles...

What I broke: I think the service manuals calls this the "manual paddle" or something. I welded it back together, but now I'm not sure if the parking rod is still connected; it seems completely loose, and i can't see the end of it , and I don't even have the space to pull it out.

Drop the pan. Fun times... Thanks for the link, Fairtax. I'm checking out the online manual...

Fairtax, Only one wheel is off the ground. I had the cable adjusted so that the indicator on the dash and the indicator on the console matched--and the engine just revved without moving the car in all gears. The car was getting hard to shift after sitting a while, and I broke the cable by wrenching on the shifter too hard. So when I replaced the cable, I figured, why not take off the shift lever on the transmission, clean things up a bit and grease it up? (that and the bushing on the cable would not come off the shift lever) What I fear is that I broke something inside the transmission when I took off the rusty nut that attaches the shift lever to the transmission.

This is what happens when one wrenches on a car without prior research: I replaced the shifter cable on my fiancee's AT FWD Impreza, and now the car seems stuck in neutral. No matter what gear I select, I can freely rotate the front right tire, which is up in the air. I'm guessing I put too much force on the shifter bolt when I removed or retightened the cable. Do you have any clue what I broke? I do have a (Haynes?) manual, but it's 130 miles away, and I'm not gonna see it for a couple of weeks. Thanks, Klutki