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Any CEL ? Since there is a neutral the Inhibitor switch is working. Ot sounds like the internal pawl that selects the valves inside the transmission are broken. This may have a broken valve body or other damage. I would replace it with one from the same model car,

Check to make sure you did not break or disconnect any wires under the car by accident. Check engine and tranny grounds. How did the car run before hand. The tranny light flashing means there is an electrical fault from the last time the car operated (in your case all the time). There is a way to pull codes and I bet you have a bunch of them. Search here on how to do it

Take it back and let him find it? Plug the line for now and see if that helps. Are you saying it is disconnected from the cruise or you can not find the mating connection in the maze of vacume lines. There also should be a vacume map under the hood that should help. If you lay the hose down where it is, it will hold its shape and should point you towards where it should be connected.

Howdy Basically a transmission shifts by a balance. It is Gov pressure vs throttle pressure(vac modulator or cable). The throttle pressure tells the transmission how hard the car is working. The gov tells the transmission how fast the car is moving. It sounds like the gov may not be working as that tells the car how fast it is going and that it needs to shift. Does it shift when manually shifting?

Soooooo dont like my links? If not google.

Are you sure it is a good driveshaft?

They are on ebay, under 100 with shipping. I found a loose outer tierod end on mine. Simple fix (loose at the thread) but disturbing.

the topic at hand AC hose issues

First I heard of it, so I will hold judgement.

Correct they are.

I really take offense to that (not kidding). I will not tell someone where to find something cheap if i do not know where it is. Go to ebay, they go from 65.00 on up (and I counted at least 10 under 100.00 and stopped there) to whatever you want to spend. People get them from here all the time and have no issues.

YAY that answers all my questions. Lately steering input on blu has been more of a "suggestion" then a command. I know he needs a rack, but that explains everything else.

I have heard many bad things about rebuilt units, and I would not recomend to amyone to try to rebuild a rack. Used ones are cheap, warreneted, and I don't know of anyone who has gotten a bad one.

SO my questiioning of some ebay sellers are legit.

I have never heard of TIE. I have to remeber to ask people what brand of belt they used next time.

Thats a mistake people make and do not understand. tightening something that seems to have adjustment in it usually wipes out the bearing. retainer bolts may seem like they have room to turn in them because there is either a bearing pre-load or room for backlash. Over tightneing things like this can wipe out those parts. Another common mistake used to be people who would over adjust thier recirculating ball steering boxes and wipe them out. These adjustaments are for light tweaking but basically exist for the factory assembly. All the work you are about to do, it is just easier to replace the rack.

I love those. They just dont exist in NY.

Just get a used rack, it is much easier. If that seal is leaking it is only a matter of time before the others leak too. I have the same problem and am waiting for good weather to resolve it.

Is this the belt that drives the altanator. if it is, have your battery checked just to make sure everything is good. A lipping alt belt is all I can think of but that would also mean your battery may be weak as the battery should be able to make up for this.

Miles on this car?

Well he is running, sort of smoothly. Of course I go to set the idle mix and can't get the engine vac over 14 Inhg. The timing belt has jumped and needs to be replaced.

yes lots of small engines and harleys due to thier low end power.

We may have reached the limit of where we can get to on the net for diagnosing a noise. Lets ignore all the other info for now and go in another direction. The quick and messy way. With the engine warmed up and running, pull one plug wire at a time. Does the sound change pitch. If it does not we will see what we can come up with short of getting a sound recording of it.

It was the late 60's early 70's ...... drugs