Q: Transmission not shifting

asked by on February 16, 2017

My truck wont go to 3rd gear right or at all when over drive is on over half the time my motor will just rev then kind of click into place then slip back out then I'm back to the revving process again. but when over drive is off it still wont click into 3rd gear but there is no revving (and it wont click into any other gears besides reverse 1st and 2nd)

My car has 1248000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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