The above car I recently acquired has ~78,000 miles, and is otherwise in good shape. The former owner told me, "the transmission slips frequently." I found that sometimes it starts off just fine, and if you keep driving, seems like it will go forever. But when stopping 15 miles later or so, upon starting up again, it acts up. What it does is act like you have it stuck in the lowest range, and if you let off the gas, it freewheels, instead of shifting. I've found if I keep the gas pedal floored, when it hits or nearly hits redline, it shifts, and then shifts up and down as it should as long as you keep driving, except sometimes a bit more harshly than normal. I had my shop take the cover off, change the fluid and the filter, but it only works a little better, if at all. They said there was quite a bit of metal filings in there. Any suggestions of what to do and what it could cost? Otherwise, do you think I could put a lower mileage junk-yard tranny in myself if I found one?

My friend has a 97 Chevy Cavalier with a 2.2 motor, manual tranny and a/c. The fan does not come on at all. With my test light, I could not get power to show up at the plug on the fan motor. I went to the fuse box and the fuse is good. Also I tested the fan relay which is the same as the blower relay, by swapping them. They both work the blower, but not the fan. I looked at the schematic for the cooling system and the only other item I can find that may be related is a fan control. But I don't know the location of it or if that's even the problem.As far as I can tell, something is not telling the fan relay to open to send power to the fan. Any ideas? Thanks