I drilled it. Back to normal now. Thanks for the help.

Common issue. My grandpa fixed his by drilling a small hole and using an allen key to pry it back over the peg.

What are you trying to say here?? LOL

I actually did think of that, but didn't know if the gauge would work afterwards, and didn't want to ghetto drill a hole thru it if it wasn't ...

Hey guys. Weird question here. Last year the wife had an issue with some bad gas, cold weather, and car wouldn't fire. She cranked until the battery died (not continuously)!It warmed up the next day and I went up and jumped it and it's been fine since. The only odd thing is the fuel gauge needle ...

I used this website. It was a pretty good help on at least making sure I was doing the right thing. If there was anything else, it was basically common sense. (take off this part, in order to get to this part kind of stuff)

http://helpwrench.com/forums/showthread.php?7-GM-4T65E-solenoid-shift-valve ...

update:

I installed a 180 stat. It seems that the old thermostat was not opening.

At the same time I figured out that the reason why my tranny dipstick was so hot when I would check it, is that every time I pulled it out I would touch it on the dipstick where it was closest to the exhaust ...

i don't ever re-use gaskets...what is it? like 10 bucks?

Well I assumed that it was actually my tranny getting hot. The driver side CV boot (the one that goes into the tranny) was unharmed during this whole install, band clamp is still super tight, but the heat from.....?? made it so hot that it was slinging the grease out of it.

What do I need to do in ...

Welcome to the forum! What kind of transmission issues are you having?
Thanks, and I have a post going in the mechanical and maintenance 2000-2005 section.

Welcome! We'd love to see pictures of your Park Ave, I'm a Buick guy in some respects. :btruestory:
I can probably get some pics from my ...

Car is a 2000 Buick Park Avenue – Has around 100k on it. I bought it with 60k.

It started to shift a little harder than normal once I had been running around town. I decided to swap out the filter, switch to Dex VI, and installed a shift kit in the accumulator hoping that may help the hard shifts ...

Newbie here with a 2000 PA - non-charged.

Having some tranny issues and hoping a few of you on here could help me out!

Great website so far.

Keegan