Maybe my tranny?
05-24-2011, 07:42 PM
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Maybe my tranny? Ok, so sometimes when I drive my car well lets put it this way every morning and once in a while my car gets stuck at 40mph and the rpm guage rises like its not going into the next gear not really stuck but I have to press the gas pedal more so its goes intro 3rd I believe (auto with 2.73s??) so I press the gas and the car
My car also feels slow, after I go full throttle it feels fast as hell but just driving feels sluggish, I've changed oil, oil filter, o2s, clean my MAF, have a K&N and clean it with water (no oil), changed my fuel filter 5k miles ago, so im not sure what im missing here??
So after I felt this on my tranny I was wonderring if this could be my main concern of loss of power?
My car also feels slow, after I go full throttle it feels fast as hell but just driving feels sluggish, I've changed oil, oil filter, o2s, clean my MAF, have a K&N and clean it with water (no oil), changed my fuel filter 5k miles ago, so im not sure what im missing here??
So after I felt this on my tranny I was wonderring if this could be my main concern of loss of power?
05-27-2011, 05:53 PM
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If your rpms rise without the car going any faster that is slippage. You likely know how your car feels better than anyone so it might be on its way out. On my LT1 Caprice I felt like it was lacking power and had an intuition that it was a trans problem even though I was only 17 at the time. A week later it gave out completely. Drop the pan and get a clean bucket from Home depot to get the fluid in and see if it has lots of clutch material / metal. You can try just doing a service and see if it feels better or just pull it and get it rebuilt or buy a new trans.
05-27-2011, 08:47 PM
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Most things in the tranny must be done with it out and disassembled so a rebuild should be done anyways. You cannot access anything with the trans in the car except the valvebody. Shift kit will not fix a slipping transmission most of the time unless your problem is in the valvebody and gets replaced in the shift kit. Its your car you can decide what you want to do with it. If you don't have the money right now you can just keep driving it. Some transmissions will shift or slip for a long time before going out completely. My transmission had a light slip with a slight bump shift and when I rebuilt it the 3-4 and forward clutches were toasted with hot spots on the steels. Even a light slip must usually get an overhaul to fix.
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05-28-2011, 01:07 PM
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It all depends on if you do it yourself or have a shop do the whole thing. If you do it yourself and just do a stock rebuild it might only cost you 300 dollars including a reman converter. If you want high performance stuff it will cost more. If you drop your car off at a shop and have them do everything you probably are looking at 1600-2500 depending on various things.
05-29-2011, 01:27 AM
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I would definitely check the tranny oil before doing anything else, go under car, take out the oil pain, and change the filter, then see what it does, but it sounds like fluid to me.
05-29-2011, 01:31 AM
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It is very difficult to do if you never did it and I would advise against it and just take it somewhere to have done. Best route and cheapest would be remove the tranny - take to shop (rep) and buy a rebuild kit yourself (google) get a good stall - Circle D - Yank - Vig - etc. For DD I would stay around 2800-3k stall. I will be doing this myself and don't look forward to the money I will be spending but what can you do?
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Its not very hard there are just a lot of steps and parts. It can seem overwhelming at first but after you do one they get easier. Youtube has lots of videos on it and if you just take your time its not too bad.
