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If you are handy there are a few things you could do to nurse this Trans along. The following are pretty darn easy and shouldn't cost you more than $125 if you buy online.
Tose metal shavings are acting like sand paper in there and are making it worse.
1. Install an inline magentic filter(magnaflow). It grabs the metal shavings and keeps them from grinding up the guts of the transmission. It is easy to install, snip the trans line and shove the hoses over each nipple on the filter/secure with hose clamps make sure the fluid is flowing in the right direction through the filter.
Also, I don't know if your trans has an external filter, but you should probably change it if it has one. The deal may not know either. Mine has one and the dealer does not know. Search the forum for that one.
Pull your trans dipstick and smell the fluid. Does it smell burnt, is it murky looking? If you don't know ask a mechanic, not the stealer.
If it smells burnt you should do the following steps.
2. Use amsoil synthetic trans fluid. The bottle has a red cap(not the blue one) Drain and fill three times.
3. Add lube guard red to the fluid.
4. Add a trans cooler ( this installs almost exactly like the magnetic filter.
Steps two, three and fourwill keep you trans fluid from burning and will allow you to keep driving with a failing torque connverter.
Plenty of people will say you need a new trans. THEY ARE RIGHT.
But if you do the above steps you can probly squeaze another 10 to 15k miles out of it.
Last resort, transmedic, but that will get you about 7k miles more at most and then lights out.
Tose metal shavings are acting like sand paper in there and are making it worse.
1. Install an inline magentic filter(magnaflow). It grabs the metal shavings and keeps them from grinding up the guts of the transmission. It is easy to install, snip the trans line and shove the hoses over each nipple on the filter/secure with hose clamps make sure the fluid is flowing in the right direction through the filter.
Also, I don't know if your trans has an external filter, but you should probably change it if it has one. The deal may not know either. Mine has one and the dealer does not know. Search the forum for that one.
Pull your trans dipstick and smell the fluid. Does it smell burnt, is it murky looking? If you don't know ask a mechanic, not the stealer.
If it smells burnt you should do the following steps.
2. Use amsoil synthetic trans fluid. The bottle has a red cap(not the blue one) Drain and fill three times.
3. Add lube guard red to the fluid.
4. Add a trans cooler ( this installs almost exactly like the magnetic filter.
Steps two, three and fourwill keep you trans fluid from burning and will allow you to keep driving with a failing torque connverter.
Plenty of people will say you need a new trans. THEY ARE RIGHT.
But if you do the above steps you can probly squeaze another 10 to 15k miles out of it.
Last resort, transmedic, but that will get you about 7k miles more at most and then lights out.