Stalls in Gear, Automatic- Restarts Good- Can Slam it into Gear! EEEK

Nice.
Sorry for scaring you about the converter, but it sure acted like it.
In the video it was hard to tell the missing because it was running so fast. (plus video sound is really hard to hear like in person)

It really did sound like it! I was convinced despite figuring it was probably a combination of small factors..