Slipping Tranny Yay Let's Party!!

[KStromberg]

Some of you may or may not know about my bad experiences with my "installer" of the mods in my car. One of those required items, in his own words, was a "lower-mile rebuild". A tranny with 20K miles and new clutch packs or so he says since my original tranny apparently wasn't up to par. Yesterday on the way home from a wedding reception I'm sitting at a stop light and it turns green. It just revs and barely crawls. It finally got into second and beyond and seemed fine. I'm driving it to his place today. Hopefully it makes it. It seems to be getting worse. I revved it to almost 6K yesterday and the sonofabitch slammed into second pretty good. It was great fun.

Funny thing, my original purpose for bringing the car to him today is for him to put a new set of gears in that he ruined. Now he is looking at a tranny problem now too.

Please God, for the sake of my $800 converter, be there no metal in the pan.

 

[driller]

The converter will need flushed as well as the cooler and lines.

 

[KStromberg]

The converter will need flushed as well as the cooler and lines.

Great advice John! Hopefully his pea brain can figure that one out. At this point I am unsure what the issue at hand here is with the tranny. It almost seems like the front pump went bad? All I know is that if there is metal in the pan, the $800 converter is toast. I am actually more concerned about that than I am the tranny itself because there is a low mile one sitting up at the local AAA for far less than the cost of my converter. Oh well, he's gonna have to man up and replace that too if need be. Once this issue is resolved, BUH BYE Brian. He said he would help me out with this, so I am barely hanging on to this bitter relationship at this point. DB Performance, here I come!!

 

[driller]

Great advice John! Hopefully his pea brain can figure that one out.

You'd be amazed how many people don't understand that and end up contaminating the second transmission!

If there is metal in the fluid I recommend sending the converter away for open surgery. But if it's just clutch material from burnt clutches it will likely be OK to simply drain it. Hopefully it has a drain plug.