Major Transmission malfunction! Was fine, now barely made it home 2 miles!

[CowboyErik]

[QUOTE=Scott Larson;264803]Don't run your trans dry, never run your trans dry, it can only cause problems as you have already discovered. You may get lucky and discover that with a simple filter change and refill with fresh fluid, that you still have a working transmission. QUOTE]

Yep, I thinking about draining it after about an hour of run time, fluid is cheap, about $10 bucks or so a gallon, my notes from last time indicate it held about a gallon, I got 3 gallons on hand, so I thought that I would at least drain the drain pan after cycling the unit the first time, dunno about dropping it again, I took my lower transmission mount bold off, to lift the transfer case away from the cross member to get room to get the rear most pan bolts off, the lower mount bolts have no shifted slight off center and might be a pain to get back in their holes; going out to my garage now to put pans on and fill, test, keeping my fingers crossed!!! VX! I have been taking pictures of everything for the next guy that does his own filter change; gettting my crossmember off is outta the question, I broke one off AFTER spraying them all with penatrating oil, lossened all of them, and the last 1 snapped off; another problem!

[CowboyErik]

Still dripping today; I keep changing the newspaper underneith the car; letting it all run out; whats coming out is bright red; only what what was in the bottom of the pan was burnt and nasty smelling; gonna put pans back up tonite I guess

[Scott Larson]

Keep in mind all the nasty stuff will settle to the bottom of the pan because it is heavy with metal particles, that's why the residual drippings are clean and pink, the heavy sediment has already settled to the bottom. You really need to drop the pan again and change the filter along with the fluid one more time, but not until you have confirmed the tranny is still serviceable. Once you have cycled the transmission through all its gears and flushed the rest of the gunk through the filter, that's the time to treat it to a new filter and fluid change, then you stand a chance of having a trans that may serve you for a few more thousand miles. Don't expect a transmission as smooth or positive as before and treat it reeeeal gentle...

[CowboyErik]

New "Murray" radiator from Obrien's, ready to install

Not a perfect fit, one of the fan shrowd bolts; the radiator over flow hose, main line, and a small amount of transparent tape held it in in place good enough; I don't like doing things that way but my main concern was to get this all back together to find out if my transmission still worked; the intercooler in my old one blew and I drove the car a few miles before realizing what was going on; sucked! I have lost my 2nd gear cluth packs and or solinoid, it either slips badly or doesn't engage at all....