About a month ago, my wife and I were driving to York, Pennsylvania, to attend my wife's high school reunion. We were in the Chrysler minivan, merging onto I-83, if anyone is familiar with that area, this is a wretched interstate, with a rather high traffic volume. This specific on-ramp was having shoulder work, so concrete barriers shortened the on-ramp and eliminated the shoulder of the highway itself. As I was accelerating to merge into traffic, there was a loud clunk, the vehicle jerked, the engine sped up and the vehicle slowed down. I barely stopped at the very end of the on-ramp, not quite into the traffic lane. The vehicle had no forward motion, no backward motion, and Park would not hold, the vehicle drifted in Park. At first I thought that a CV joint or axle broke, but nothing was obviously hanging under the front end. Any of you automotive types want to venture a guess what happened?
Gene
1)Transmission failed +/- torque converter 2)Broken crankshaft
