You check the fluid with the engine hot and running, after a drive when the car is drivable. Run the shifter up and down through the gears a few times, throw it in park, then check it. Don't know if you were checking it that way, or as the car was just sitting and turned off? And no, a little too high isn't going to make it slip.

 

car was hasnt been ran in about 4 days, and I was checking it cold. It was 1-1/4" above the "hot" mark on the dip stick. I dropped the pan tonight to drain and refill it properly. this is the crap that came out lol

 

may have mixed royle with red. was there a layer of dust lookin stuff at the bottom of the pan,,, and anything else there on the inside bottom?

 

I don't know why you bothered to change the fluid, the trans is already toast.

 

No chunks or anything in the bottom. There was a magnet that I'm assuming is supposed to there on the pan that had gunk on it that's it. An I haven't changed it yet. Just dropped the pan. The filter looks new, so I'm thinking they just recently changed it. I've heard when to wait to long to change filters and finally do it, it can send your trans into "shock" an it won't worn properly then. I'm thinking that might be what happened

 

Not trying to sound negative, but burnt smelling and looking fluid means you have internal slippage causing excess heat. The previous owner certainly may have changed it recently, as evidenced by the new looking filter, with the same hopes you are having. That being the case, the fluid you just took out burned up quick time.

 

Yea I figured that's what happened. I'm saving up to have mine rebuilt next month thankfully