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Posted on Jul 27, 2008

Car will idle but stalls when its put in any gear automatic transmision

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It's probably a bad torque converter---that's what allows the engine to idle when transmission is still in gear. It locks when the car is moving, but if it doesnt unlock then the engine will stall out.

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