I have a 91 Accord with 276k on it. It was driving fine till today. I was driving in D4. I got out of the car and went into the house and when I came back outside and turned it on, I drove it around. But, It will only go up to 50 MPH. It revs itself up to about 6,000 RPM's. It's like it won't shift into the last gear. Is this gonna be an expensive fix or how can I tell/ fix it? Thanks.

 

It sounds like it's not shifting into 4th and the lock up converter isn't engaging. If it's been many moons since the last transmission fluid change, THATS what I'd try doing first; the Honda prefered multi fluid change proceedure. If that had little effect, I'd look at the Filter screens under the transmission shift solenoids, directly under the distributor area,




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I have a 1990 Accord LX, does it have a filter screen too?
Thanks.

 

Yes.

The transmissions for Accords remained relatively unchanged between the years 1990 thru 1997.
Everything went to Hell (if you believe some) in 1998 and it took Honda three years to sort things out

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