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| Hi all,
I have a 1989 1.3L automatic and all seems to be well with the car other than a couple of things...... 1 is that it needs a touch of welding doing, 2 is that it has a wheelbearing on the front nearside that has a bit of play in it and the autobox appears to be slipping..
seem that is slips when driving normally between 3rd and fourth as it gets to about 25mph and the revs rise quickly to about 3k (from 2k) when it will finally change into gear. When I first got it (not long ago) it appeared fine but to be fair my driving is different when I have people with me LOL
If you driving it hard and use the kickdown, it drives fine up till about 60 and then it slides into 4th, fairly slowly, it does do it but seems wierd.
Any ideas on what I can do? does it sound like it's knackered? Oh and it seems if you lift off the accelerator a bit, it will drop down into 4th nice and easy.
Now theres a pipe that goes from the carb to the box on the battery side of the engine at the back that was split so I replaced that with a length of fuel hose but before I connected it up, I checked to see if anything came out, no vacuum, fuel or anything. what is that for? it's not in the haynes.
Wheel bearings.... are they the type that you can tighten up or are they replace only?
And last question... any good really cheap welders in the Stoke area? been quoted £75, only payed £90 for the car  | |
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A series 1.3 auto slipping box
As for the slipping, i know exactly what your on about, as my mk1 auto did that a few years ago ( before i had the engine/box rebuilt). It will probabaly be ok for many years mate, but one bit of advice i will give is dont make it slip too much, when it changes from 3rd to 4th just ease off slightly. 
