transmission flooding ?? Options

[homeboy]

Replaced motor in my 94 celica gt with a 96 gt. (THANK YOU SOO MUCH 96gtok!!!) My transmission went out. Put in tranny out of 94 gt.
At first it would do nothing in reverse so we thought we were going to have to replace it again. The fuse for my windows blew about the same time, n when we replaced that, reverse magically started working. Coincidence?
I took off down the road, my speedometer went out in about half a mile. My RPMs freaked out because of this. My car seemed to die so I pulled off the road and tried to take it back home. It wouldnt work in reverse again, and now nothing happened in drive. Turned it off and screamed for a few seconds, then tried again. It worked fine. Made it to the top of the hill and it did the same thing.
I can drive about a mile before I have to turn it off and back on. The transmission is pulling fluid up through the filter, just not returning it. Evidence points to a possible wiring issue....
Any help or thoughts?

This post has been edited by homeboy: Sep 13, 2009 - 10:48 AM

[Bitter]

you're low on transmission fluid, put some in before you burn that thing up.

classic symptoms you have, no reverse and loss of forward gears after a few upshifts until you shut down and the fluid runs back into the bottom of the pan. trans fluid is checked with the engine running after its hot and the gear select has been moved through each gear range. should be in the cross hatch area, takes dex2 or better.