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i just bough a 87 T-Type i got on it yesterday and in the process the vacuum cap blew off on the throttle body i fixed that now the trans is having a problem in first. it is sticking in first the only way to get it to shift is to top out first gear and whop the gas a couple of times and let off the gas than it shifts but if you give it too much gas when in 2nd the trans goes back into 1st and have to do everything all over again. the car has been sitting for about a year and 1/2 but the previous owner drove it for 100 miles in sept of last year. he said that when he drove it before you would have to go up to 65 to 70 mph then it would go into overdrive then you can go down to whatever the speed limit was and drive fine maybe something was starting to go bad than and when i got on it just finished off what was going bad. the car has been adult owned all its life and has some mods done to it and the trans is the stock 200 trans that came from factory and the car only has 75000 miles on it and has been well taken care of. any help and ideas would be greatly appreciated thanks