need help now

[Mogobs30th]

Re: need help now

I would hope from someone who comes on a forum for modding cars would know to check fluid levels regularly.

You'd be ****ing surprised.

[pace2006]

Re: need help now

I would hope from someone who comes on a forum for modding cars would know to check fluid levels regularly.

I'd hope others would want to also fix the problem permanently instead of temporarily "fixing" it or hiding it behind a cool down period. ;)

mine has been slipping for the last month. need to stop and let it cool awhile before continueing and mine seems to slip more with the cruise on and running the a\c. you shouldnt have to check the tranny fluid. it slipping wont cause it to use more, atleast mine never has.

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[debord97]

Re: need help now

I'd hope others would want to also fix the problem permanently instead of temporarily "fixing" it or hiding it behind a cool down period. ;)



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nice try at being a smarty. with the economy crappy I am lucky to be barely working right now. when you build houses for a living in Texas and the oil prices drop. nobody wants to spend money. so until work picks up we dont drive anywhere unless we just have to. there are a few things you can do to keep a transmission going until you can afford to replace it. I wont even mention any of it on here because some of you "old school board members" think nobody but you guys know what is going on with anything.

[97rs4life]

Re: need help now

nice try at being a smarty. with the economy crappy I am lucky to be barely working right now. when you build houses for a living in Texas and the oil prices drop. nobody wants to spend money. so until work picks up we dont drive anywhere unless we just have to. there are a few things you can do to keep a transmission going until you can afford to replace it. I wont even mention any of it on here because some of you "old school board members" think nobody but you guys know what is going on with anything.

there's right ways and wrong ways of doing things.

Cars break, people always assume their cars will run forever and don't save up for future repairs then whine when they break and they are broke at the time.

You can only band aid stuff for so long before everything piles up and you just have to junk out the car because you have let it go to crap with band aids

[debord97]

Re: need help now

I guess everyone else's idea of only driving a vehicle when you have to is more often than mine. right now our main vehicle is an 85 chevy that is more of a hotrod project vehicle that gets 10 miles to the gallon if I stay off the pedal.

Some of you guys just assume I am saying do this stuff and then continue driving your vehicle every day like nothing was wrong.

[pace2006]

Re: need help now

nice try at being a smarty. with the economy crappy I am lucky to be barely working right now. when you build houses for a living in Texas and the oil prices drop. nobody wants to spend money. so until work picks up we dont drive anywhere unless we just have to. there are a few things you can do to keep a transmission going until you can afford to replace it. I wont even mention any of it on here because some of you "old school board members" think nobody but you guys know what is going on with anything.

Heh. I am a smartass. But I have no problem trying to help those that post up asking for it. Up to you to take the advice given or blow it off. And believe me, I know about the economy. I'm not too far away from you and even in one of the fastest growing business regions in the nation, it's hit pretty hard.

Either way, you be surprised at the difference in cost a $22 replacement part and labor will be compared to paying for a replacement transmission and the associated labor for that. Your transmission isn't toast... yet. Changing the fluid and filter or giving it a cool-down period will only help to briefly hide the symptoms of a failing TCC valve. Your transmission has a worn part that is failing, causing it to command for max line pressure that shocks internal parts. Eventually it'll progress to worse symptoms... causing your torque converter to not lock up, and then it'll start losing gears, finally rendering it useless and your car unable to move under its own power. Add in the cost of a tow truck and you're looking at a much bigger bill and a lot more headaches when going down the band-aid route.

And don't worry... I'm not an old school board member. I just grew up around those gearheads that get things done the right (and typically less expensive) way. ;)

I guess everyone else's idea of only driving a vehicle when you have to is more often than mine. right now our main vehicle is an 85 chevy that is more of a hotrod project vehicle that gets 10 miles to the gallon if I stay off the pedal.

Some of you guys just assume I am saying do this stuff and then continue driving your vehicle every day like nothing was wrong.

If it's not your primary car and isn't driven that often, why not look into fixing it yourself?

[ssms5411]

Re: need help now

I agree with you Pace , I grew up around mechanics and their shops , only way to fix something is do it the right way. There are many ways to half @ss to do things, but it will cost less in the long run to do it the right way in the begining.

[Mogobs30th]

Re: need help now

Heh. I am a smartass. But I have no problem trying to help those that post up asking for it. Up to you to take the advice given or blow it off. And believe me, I know about the economy. I'm not too far away from you and even in one of the fastest growing business regions in the nation, it's hit pretty hard.

Either way, you be surprised at the difference in cost a $22 replacement part and labor will be compared to paying for a replacement transmission and the associated labor for that. Your transmission isn't toast... yet. Changing the fluid and filter or giving it a cool-down period will only help to briefly hide the symptoms of a failing TCC valve. Your transmission has a worn part that is failing, causing it to command for max line pressure that shocks internal parts. Eventually it'll progress to worse symptoms... causing your torque converter to not lock up, and then it'll start losing gears, finally rendering it useless and your car unable to move under its own power. Add in the cost of a tow truck and you're looking at a much bigger bill and a lot more headaches when going down the band-aid route.

And don't worry... I'm not an old school board member. I just grew up around those gearheads that get things done the right (and typically less expensive) way. ;)



If it's not your primary car and isn't driven that often, why not look into fixing it yourself?

YEAH

[debord97]

Re: need help now

I'm starting to think you guys dont actually read the whole posts.

[Rob Bell]

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Back on topic, I would hope that flamingchicken's transmission is not destroyed yet. If it were my car I would (a) change the fluid ASAP and (b) get it to a shop or diagnose it myself before driving it. I had a badly slipping trans once, and it turned out to be a bad vacuum line. Once that was fixed it went another 200,000 trouble-free miles

Debord, just don't let it go for too long unless you just plan to replace it anyway. If you can get it looked at quickly, it may have no permanent problems.

[flamingchicken]

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I'm taking it to a transmissions shop tomorrow to see what they tell me. Its still running funny, and I can't figure out why. I just put the new engine in and it idles like it has a cam in it, but its just a stock series 3. I'm thinking its a vacuum leak somewhere.

[99v6bird]

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fwiw...I had a the same problem during a road trip a month ago.

200 miles into a 600 mile trip, tranny started slipping on a mountain in Pennsylvania when it was very hot out and a/c was on high...you could smell the burnt tranny fluid. After that, I made many cool-down stops whenever it started slipping, but I made it to Michigan.

The next day, I took it to a lube shop and had the tranny fluid completely flushed/replaced and added a quart of Lucas Oil Transmission Fix.
It made it 600 miles back home on another hot day without any problem, and has run good since then...knock on wood.

Seems like the flush and the Lucas Oil helped...sorry this isn't a Trans X story. :D