I don't have any friends that are that handy. Plus it has some other problems (alignment, burns oil, and cracked windshield) so I don't think I want to devote too much time and money on it. I don't think it's something simple. The slippage is pretty severe and the grinding noise is loud...
I went to lunch and my automatic transmission started making a horrible grinding noise when I started moving. Once it got going the noise went away but there was major slipping coming out of first. The rest of the gears seemed fine. Later on, I put in in reverse to back out of a parking spot and...