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Stays in neutral?
I drive a 1.8L '93 Plymouth Laser (Mitsu Eclipse) and its got a really finicky automatic transmission.
1) In my youthful days, I used to "neutral drop" it, thinking it was cool to chirp my tires like I had a manual tranny. In retrospect -- what a stupid fucking idea. My transmission hasn't blown yet, but it JUMPS into third with a big thud under hard acceleration, and sometimes it doesn't engage into drive. If its been sitting for a while, sometimes when I start it up and put it into drive.. it'll rev like crazy.. like it's in drive. It never engages at all unless I flip it into neutral and then back into drive a few times.... any idea what could be causing this?
I've never really been able to find a good diagram/explanation of how an automatic transmission works with all of its universal gears, so if anyone has a good link.. that'd be awesome too.
2) I have a feeling my car burns a RIDICULOUS amount of oil. When I start to get low, I can see it on the oil pressure guage as well as hear a LOUD clicking (valves?) When I check the dipstick, cold.. it shows up as overfilled...warm, it doesn't even register on the dipstick. I've added 3 quarts in the last year (outta 4) and I'm really starting to wonder if my oil sump has problems or what.. any suggestions?
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