Hi all,
I've been reading a lot on this forum and must say that it has helped a lot with things I need to do on my wife's car. I'm hoping that someone can help me with this one:

The car has been having one of the yellow oil lights go on and off for about a week. My wife drives it, but didn't pay attention to the type of warning. I would check the oil and it was always full. From the topics on this forum, I figured it may be sludge, since the car has 105k miles. She's had all oil changes done on time. There's also been a small coolant leak. So I replaced the coolant flange and sensor, and replaced the valve cover gasket due to some leaking. Then I seafoamed the car in all 3 locations - oil, intake, and gas tank. After running for about 30 miles (car ran great), I changed the spark plugs and oil. While changing the oil, I dropped the belly pan to check it out. Found no sludge and nice smooth oil. I cleaned it up, put it back, and filled the oil. Started the car and it is very smooth and quiet! Went to back it down off the ramps and ...........nothing. The car won't go into reverse or drive. I tried neutral to push it down the ramps, and it's stuck in park for all gears!

I expect that somewhere along the lines I disconnected something, but I retraced my steps and don't see anything obvious. I should also mention that I put only half of one of those big 5+ quart oil jugs, and it seems to be reading too much oil.

Has anyone had this problem before? Any ideas what might be going on? I would sure appreciate help from the experts here (and so would my wife!).

Thanks.

 

Also, I tried suggestions from others having the same problem here. Brake lights work properly, fuses seem OK.

I was able to roll it down the ramps in the driveway, but it still won't go. I can move the shifter to R, N, P, but the transmission isn't engaging.

Can anyone help?

 

Another update.....every gear is neutral - the car will roll forward in R and D, but not P. Could I have disconnected something?

 

Is there maybe a puddle of fluid? Im sure you would have noticed that but its all i can really think of. On the ramps the trans fluid ran out the back.

The transmissions arent really serviceable so no one here really knows much about them.

 

Any codes???

 

You drained the transmission, not the oil. I did this myself a couple years ago. Get it flatbedded to the dealer and just hand them your wallet.

 

^^ that would probably be it. That's why your oil is still full!

 

In fact its now overfull by a few quarts. Don't start it till you get that extra oil out of there, make sure the guy with the flatbed knows too.

IIRC it cost me about $400 or so to get it all squared away.