Recent content by shea14

While researching the problem further, I ran across a ton of threads about people's rear drum breaks locking up in cold weather, having to put it in reverse to unlock them and then driving fine. While it's been in the high 80's in SoCal, I tore apart the drums just in case. The rear passenger...

Alright, good and bad news kind of? The old girl DOES drive forward, but seems to shudder at a specific point, the rear wheels lock up for a second, like someone slams the breaks, then they let go and continue moving forward... happens every 2-3 feet. It sounds like the rear differential slips...

Damnit. Well. I'll pull it apart this weekend and post my findings... hopefully save some other poor shmuck from destroying their tranny.

The fluids were changed when I bought it about a month ago, all of the driving we've done has been after that. Fully flushed and refilled, and from what I can see there are no leaks. My real point of confusion is the fact that it drove perfectly fine last weekend, it's been sitting still for...

Recently bought a 1990 4runner 4x4 auto, and it's been running really well for the last few weeks. We've only put a total of maybe 25 miles on it, haven't even driven it at highway speeds. I've had all of the fluids (including the trans and differentials) done. Yesterday, it started locking up...