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Not Overdrive Issue!!! What Next? 200 1992

Help, help, help! I finally bypassed the overdrive solenoid with IPDpart, the car performed beautifully on the highway for the 450 miles or so to Vermont and back. Today, local highway, my heart sank as those old symptoms reappeared: highway speeds, car "downshifts" while deaccelerating and/or going down "hill", slowing itself into third, then wanders back and forth trying to find a place to land gear wise. Also doing it on surface streets again around the 40mph mark. I used to be able to settle this by pressing orange arrow on (turning overdrive off), but now there IS NO OVERDRIVE to help me, since it has been bypassed. What has been previously done: Transmission fluid changed, throttle cleaned, lubed, new cable put in, overdrive relay changed, overdrive now bypassed. I went back to the mechanic, a Volvo indie shop, and he has no idea for the "what next." Is going to drive it again to "see what it is doing." I was hoping for some amazing, insightful answer before then. I have to drive this car 1300 miles next week for a big move, and I am panicking! - 1992 Volvo 240 Wagon, 123,000 orig. miles. Thanks!








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    Not Overdrive Issue!!! What Next? 200 1992

    Possible the new kick-down cable is mal-adjusted? My first thought is too tight.

    Here are the SEARCH HITS for 240 kickdown cable.

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    Bruce Young, '93 940-NA (current), 240s (one V8), 140s, 122s, since '63.








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      Not Overdrive Issue!!! What Next? 200 1992

      Thanks for the thought, Bruce. That's the first thing the mechanic did when I went back, loosened the throttle cable and told me to see if it made a difference. Oddly, it made things worse -- I could barely go 45mph without the car rocking between third and fourth gear! This morning they removed the bypass and put back the old part/solenoid, so that I can downshift and hold it in third when this starts happening, which is how I've managed the problem for what now seems eternity. It just seems so odd that I was able to drive nearly 500, smooth miles after the bypass was installed, then suddenly, the problem reared up again. On top of this, the gas gauge suddenly stopped working! Waah!







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