Q: Everytime I put car into gear it shuts off the car but idles fine
I replaced transmission the built on transmission cooler busted and it put water in the transmission and transmission fluid in the radiator i flushed the radiator very well ive dropped the transmission pan and put new filter let transmission drain i crank car runs fine i put it n gear now and it shots off the car ive tried 3 times to drain all fluid out of the transmission any help would be great
My car has 134000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.
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