# My poor mustang... :-(

**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-poor-mustang/251478
**Category:** Shift518 Automotive
**Created:** [April 14, 2010, 8:44pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-poor-mustang/251478 "2010-04-14T20:44:57Z")
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### Author: ![jdaniels](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jdaniels/32/6399_2.png) [@jdaniels](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/jdaniels)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2010, 6:12am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-poor-mustang/251478/82 "2010-06-04T06:12:14Z")

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> [@The lady who runs our Lotus application should be killed](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-lady-who-runs-our-lotus-application-should-be-killed/32337/25):
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> YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!! FINALLY figured out what the hell is wrong with my carrrr! 🙂 The torque converter needs to be replaced. PLEH! Since the tranny is gonna be pulled ANYWAY and we don’t know how many miles are on the effing thing, apparently we’re gonna replace or rebuild that too!
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> Since the car is driveable right now, I’m probably gonna wait until the end of the season to pull it and do the work, put a new rebuilt tranny in, rebuild the old one myself to have around as a spare… then get it back on the road next season and MAYYYYBE hit Lebanon Valley like one of my boy’s is encouraging me to do. 🙂

I would be surprised if it really was the torque converter, that sounds unlikely (but possible). I will say this, if you continue to drive it with a bad transmission or bad torque converter, there is a good chance that you will end up replacing both in the short run.

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