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Well this is my first post, I bought a 98 camaro touring edition and all that special stuff. But my question is the car had 130k miles when i bought it and now its got 135K and I check fluids on a weekly basis and the tranny fluid is pretty burnt. But is it worth getting it flushed out or not? Iv researched for a couple days now and iv gotten mixed answers some saying, it just causes more problems and some say do it a.s.a.p. any suggestions?
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Flushed mine when mine was pretty dark, although at the time mine only had 60,xxx miles on it. It helped me a lot, no problems yet..... -
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The shop at my school uses a fluid exchanger. I don't see how it could possibly be bad for the transmission, it's not like it's pumping it in the wrong direction or anything. Heat is the number one killer of automatics and obviously new fluid does a better job dealing with the heat than old fluid. A new filter probably won't hurt either.94 Camaro convertible -- mostly stock
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What the fudge is a "touring edition" Camaro? Is that in the Tech database?
If it's burned I would say drain and fill. Flushing may be a little too aggressive IMHO, though some tranny experts say the likelihood of harm coming from exchanging fluids is very remote. (someone can finish that joke for me). If it's burned it's possible that the damage is already done, so I doubt changing it will shorten the life significantly, and if there is not too much harm, the fresh oil will probably do it good.
Usually where most people, including mechanics, get the idea that fluid exchanges are bad from is the correlation of a flush to a failure. But in those cases people are flushing because they have other symptoms of a looming failure and think the flush will prolong the tranny's life, which it could, but unlikely because the damage has been done.
Best thing is to do regular flushes, or regular drain and fills.
Okay, to sum up my position from that rant: Fluid drain and fill with filter change and keep a sample of the fluid and metal flakes on the magnet to show the tranny repair mechanic when it finally fails.Comment
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drain the pan, and replace filter, and reinstall the pan
if the fluid is burnt, your transmission was either abused or is worn, flushing it out is like putting a loaded gun to your head with a broken triggerComment
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flushing a transmission out removes the dirt that is lodged in the trans which take up space from wear, and form a "protective" coatOriginally posted by landj View Post
when you do the flush, it removes all of that crud, and then gives you metal to metal contact with play, which means the trans will die a lot sooner
you're right, never do a flush unless it has been done regularly.. same goes with engine oil, never use seafoam in it unless you have been using it since the beginning
many people seem to have a problem with those statements for unknown reasons.. but really do a search for seafoam and engine oil, you will see a ton of people asking why their engine is now ticking after they used seafoamComment
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Throw some Royal purple tranny fluid in there, I'm using Valvoline Dexron VI syntheic and its been great, if I wasn't in a hurry at the time it would of been RP in there.08' L76 6.0L 4X4 Chevy EXT.Cab LTZ Vortec MAX with Snug top cover, Dynomax exhaust,Hptuners& K&N intake
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Alrite thanks, ill probably go ahead and change the fluid and the fliter then.Comment
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