These days, voltage regulators are internal to the alternator, so they'll likely replace the entire alternator.
Automatic transmissions used to be simple affairs operated mostly by hydraulic pressure (the tranny fluid) and a little bit by vacuum (a vacuum line ran to the engine to signal a "kickdown"--when you mash the accelerator to the floor and the trans downshifts.) Then, in the late 80s, they started with the electronic control and lockup torque converters. Nowadays they're complex, electronically-controlled things hooked into the engine computer. If you start running them significantly under-voltage, they start behaving kinda wonky and exhibiting the symptoms you describe.
I *have* seen burned-out, recently-rebuilt transmissions. (The overwhelming majority of shops don't actually rebuild your transmission in-house; they just pull a rebuilt unit off the shelf, pop it into your car, and send yours out somewhere else to be rebuilt aind put into someone else's car.) The quality of the rebuild can vary greatly.
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Date: 2005-11-07 06:26 pm (UTC)Automatic transmissions used to be simple affairs operated mostly by hydraulic pressure (the tranny fluid) and a little bit by vacuum (a vacuum line ran to the engine to signal a "kickdown"--when you mash the accelerator to the floor and the trans downshifts.) Then, in the late 80s, they started with the electronic control and lockup torque converters. Nowadays they're complex, electronically-controlled things hooked into the engine computer. If you start running them significantly under-voltage, they start behaving kinda wonky and exhibiting the symptoms you describe.
I *have* seen burned-out, recently-rebuilt transmissions. (The overwhelming majority of shops don't actually rebuild your transmission in-house; they just pull a rebuilt unit off the shelf, pop it into your car, and send yours out somewhere else to be rebuilt aind put into someone else's car.) The quality of the rebuild can vary greatly.