transmission or electrical problem or both?

[Misterio]

Ok it all started when i passed an import and I decided to be stupid and rev up my engine. I drop it in neutral and rev my engine up high and then i notice a difference in my car. I pull into a gas station and then pull out on the street again and 1st gear is fine but it won't go into 2nd or 4th or reverse. So all of my bottom gears are gone. So I'm mad and take it home at least 1st 3rd and 5th work. I take it to a transmission shop and he inspects it and says i need a new transmission. I find a used rebuilt tranny for 650 with a 1 year warranty and i go ahead and buy a clutch kit. I get a shop to put it in and I go today to pick it up and it is still doing the same thing. It is too much of a coincidence that both trannys would do the same thing. He says it might be wires connecting the shifter to tranny (linkage i beleive) Well i have 10 minutes to go to a doctor's appointment so i go ahead and take the car like that, I still had the top gears left. Well when i am almost to the doctor my gas pedal goes limp and i pull over and sure enough the wire to the throttle was red hot and it had melted off. What the mess?? Now my transmission is acting up and this is messed up. I decide to forget about the doctor's appointment and take the car home so I think quick and run to a nearby hardware store and with a small chain/wire i rig it to the throttle and run it through the passenger window and to my hand. So I try to turn on my car and now it won't even start. The electronics in the car start going crazy and their is ticking everywhere and my gauges are acting up and it won't even start. I get somebody to give me a boost with booster cables and it turns on but as soon as i turn the lights on it turns off. I turn it on again and this time i hit the brake and it turns off. So any time anything electrical turns on the car died. After this it would not turn on again like if the battery had drained. I pull the car to the shop and I began to hate my car.

What could have happened. Is it some kind of short? As I was driving down the road the temperature gauge needles would bounce up to hot at the beat of my subwoofer. Im so confused.

1995 Eagle Talon EsI

 

[Spln_Hrd]

wow i seen all that comming. i thought it was your shifting linkages before you ever said you put in a new tranny.

your electrical problem sounds like you have a short from positive to negative somewhere.

 

[Misterio]

Ok it was the linkage and the there was a bad ground from the intake manifold. Now im mad because i bought another tranny for no reason and i paid to have it put in and a new clutch and i liked my old tranny and clutch better.

Anybody need a tranny?

 

[spyder97gs]

If I were you, I would take that tranny back to the shop that sold it to you, and demand your money back. It was their misjudement that cost you out the ass. They should be the ones to eat the loss, not you. If they refuse, file a complaint with the BBB, and mention the words "court." Probably won't help, but it's worth a shot. I had a place tell me I needed a knew tranny once when it was only the axle, and needless to say I brought the car back home. Good luck.