96 grand marquis needs to warm up in order to move

[Pete M]

my sister's big white boat is slow to wake up in the morning or any time it's been sitting a while. the car needs to warm up before the trans will start transferring power. any thoughts? I'm looking to drop the pan and change the filter pretty soon (it's due).

[JeepcoMJ]

Torque converter solenoid or torque converter itself. Same issue with my 94 crown vic...caused me to scrap it

[Pete M]

did yours drive normally after it warmed up?

[JeepcoMJ]

For a couple months, then it stopped working entirely

[Harley]

Its a ford. Get her a chevy. Problem solved!

[JeepcoMJ]

Crown vic was the most comfortable and least expensive car I've ever owned

[Harley]

For a couple months, then it stopped working entirely

Sounds about right. I worked for a cab company in northern MN for a few yrs (COLD winters). The entire fleet was a mix of vics and marquis. I learned to hate those damn things. When ours would start to act like that, if we didn't change em right away they would give out completely within about a month or so. Sometimes they would last a bit longer but not very often.

[jpnjim]

I had an Econoline Van like this.

You could start it up, put it in drive, and it would just sit there for 10-15 minutes.

Finally, when it was good & ready, it would pull out of the spot, and operate completely normally.

 

I drove it like that for months,

then one day while I was driving it,

(fully warmed up, and miles from home)

the trans started slipping, drove another 100 feet or so,

then would not move forward under its own power.

 

It backed up just fine, but I didn't think I could make the 6-7 miles home in reverse in a van without windows. :ack:

 

I ended up parking it in a field, and it became my first apartment :chillin:

[jimoshel]

Get her a Nash. They're very dependable.

They did?

When?

Nobody tells me nothin.

[Pete M]

so the consensus is that replacing the TC should be the cure?

[JeepcoMJ]

Try the tc solenoid first...not expensive. Then the while trans. No sense doing a tc when the trans will already have continents in it from old one. It will wreck new one abcs cost twice as much.

[shawn]

Try the tc solenoid first...not expensive. Then the while trans. No sense doing a tc when the trans will already have continents in it from old one. It will wreck new one abcs cost twice as much.

 

whoa pat. do you have chubby fingers on a new phone? :rotf:

[JeepcoMJ]

Try the tc solenoid first...not expensive. Then the while trans. No sense doing a tc when the trans will already have continents in it from old one. It will wreck new one abcs cost twice as much.

 

whoa pat. do you have chubby fingers on a new phone? :rotf:

 

 

lol. auto correct.

 

Try the tc solenoid first...not expensive. Then the whole trans. No sense doing a tc when the trans will already have contaminents in it from old one. It will wreck new one and cost twice as much.

 

fixed.

[Pete M]

I get 2 completely different solenoids in my search. :hmm:

 

http://www.autozone.com/autozone/parts/ ... ing=search

[Pete M]

pat?